Melvin Mooney

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

Life Mooney was born in Kansas City, Missouri. 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. (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. He was the first recipient of the Bingham Medal from the Society of Rheology in 1948. He is the namesake of the Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award of the American Chemical Society Rubber Division.