Melvin Mooney

{{short description|American physicist and rheologist}}

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{{Infobox scientist

| name = Melvin Mooney

| image = Melvin Mooney.jpg

| birth_date = 1893

| birth_place = Kansas City, Missouri

| death_date = {{death year and age|1968|1893}}

| death_place =

| nationality = American

| field = Polymer science

| work_institution = United States Rubber Company

| alma_mater = University of Chicago

| doctoral_advisor =

| known_for = Mooney viscometer
Mooney–Rivlin solid

| prizes = {{ubl|Charles Goodyear Medal (1962)}}

}}

Melvin Mooney (1893–1968) was an American physicist and rheologist.

Life

Mooney was born in Kansas City, Missouri.J. H. Dillon (1948) J. Colloid Sci. 4 (3) 187-8 "Introduction of Melvin Mooney as E. C. Bingham Medallist" He achieved an A.B. degree from the University of Missouri in 1917 and a PhD in physics from the University of Chicago in 1923. He worked for the United States Rubber Company.

He developed the Mooney viscometer{{cite journal |last1=Mooney |first1=M. |title=A shearing disk plastometer for unvulcanized rubber. |journal=Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Analytical Edition |date=1934 |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=147–151 |doi=10.1021/ac50088a025}} (used to measure viscosity of rubber compounds during curing) and other testing equipment used in the rubber industry. He also proposed the Mooney-Rivlin solid constitutive law describing the hyperelastic stress–strain behavior of rubber.{{cite journal |last1=Mooney |first1=M. |title=A theory of large elastic deformation |journal=Journal of Applied Physics |date=1940 |volume=11 |issue=9 |pages=582–592 |doi=10.1063/1.1712836}} He was the first recipient of the Bingham Medal from the Society of Rheology in 1948. He received the Charles Goodyear Medal in 1962.{{cite journal |last1=Mooney |first1=M. |title=Some neglected problems in the rheology of high polymers |journal=Rubber Chemistry and Technology |date=1962 |volume=35 |issue=5 |pages=27–40 |doi=10.5254/1.3539997}} He is the namesake of the Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award of the American Chemical Society Rubber Division.[http://www.rubber.org/st-awards-descriptions-sponsors ACS Rubber Division] Science & Technology Awards Descriptions & Sponsors

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