Melvin Mooney

A Mooney viscometer

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

He developed the Mooney Viscometer 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. He was the first recipient of the Bingham Medal from the Society of Rheology in 1948.

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• A photograph of Melvin Mooney from [1]

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Name	Mooney, Melvin
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Date of birth	1893
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Date of death	1968
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