Secretary of Defense. In 1965 Clarkson College of Technology awarded Dr. Zisman with an Honorary Doctor of Science degree. In 1968 he was awarded the Office of Naval Research's Captain Robert Dexter Conrad Award. In 1969, he was awarded the Mayo D. Hersey Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He was the author of over 100 publications and held 39 patents, 10 of which are held by the US Navy. He also authored Zisman's Plot method which is incorporated in ramé-hart DROPimage software. Among his greatest inventions is the NRL Contact Angle Goniometer which has been manufactured by ramé-hart instrument co., Succasunna, NJ, for over 50 years. References External links Concise biography of Dr. William Zisman ramé-hart instrument co. Newsletter September 2009 1986 deaths American physical chemists American geophysicists 1905 births Harvard University alumni MIT Department of Physics alumni Tribologists