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. He worked for the United States Rubber Company. He developed the Mooney viscometer (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 received the Charles Goodyear Medal in 1962. He is the namesake of the Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award of the American Chemical Society Rubber Division. References External links A photograph of Melvin Mooney from Audio interview with Melvin Mooney. Polymer scientists and engineers 1893 births 1968 deaths Rheologists 20th-century American physicists Solid mechanics Scientists from Kansas City, Missouri University of Missouri alumni University of Chicago alumni Physicists from Missouri Scientists from Missouri University of Missouri physicists Fellows of the American Physical Society