Mayo Dyer Hersey

Mayo Dyer Hersey (August 30, 1886 – September 5, 1978) was an American engineer, physicist at the National Bureau of Standards and other government agencies, and Professor of Engineering at Brown University. He received the 1957 ASME Medal, and the first Mayo D. Hersey award in 1965. son of George Milbank Hersey and Alice Stafford (Budlong) Hersey. He obtained his Bsc from Colorado College in 1907, and in 1910 both his BSc in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his MSc in physics and mathematics from Olivet College.

After his graduation in 1910 Hersey started his career as physicist at the National Bureau of Standards, now National Institute of Standards and Technology. He also started teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1910 to 1922. In World War I he did research on aeronautical instruments for the National Bureau of Standards. In 1965 the ASME initiated the annual Mayo D. Hersey award for "distinguished and continued contributions over a substantial period of time to the advancement of the science and engineering of tribology," and Hersey was named its first recipient. In 1967 the ASME also awarded him the ASME Medal. In 1974, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers awarded him the Tribology Gold Medal.

Selected publications Mayo Dyer Hersey. On the Laws of Lubrication of Journal Bearings, 1915. Mayo Dyer Hersey. Theory of lubrication, J. Wiley & Sons, inc., 1938. Mayo Dyer Hersey and Richard F. Hopkins. Viscosity of lubricants under pressure. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1954. Mayo Dyer Hersey Theory and research in lubrication : foundations for future developments, John Wiley & Sons, 1966.

Articles, a selection Hersey, Mayo D. "The laws of lubrication of horizontal journal bearings." Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 4.19 (1914): 542-552. Hersey, Mayo D. "Future problems of theoretical rheology." Journal of Rheology (1929-1932) 3.2 (1932): 196-204. Hersey, Mayo D. "Note on heat effects in capillary flow." Physics 7.11 (1936): 403-407.