The Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award is a professional award conferred by the

ACS Rubber Division ACS or Acs may refer to: Aviation * ACS-3, the military version of Raybird-3, a Ukrainian UAV * Aerial Common Sensor, a Lockheed Martin reconnaissance aircraft airframe for the US Army and Navy * Air Cess, a cargo airline based in Sharjah, Uni ...

. Established in 1983, the award is named after Melvin Mooney, developer of the Mooney viscometer and of the Mooney-Rivlin hyperelastic law. The award consists of an engraved plaque and prize money. The medal honors individuals "who have exhibited exceptional technical competency by making significant and repeated contributions to

rubber Rubber, also called India rubber, latex, Amazonian rubber, ''caucho'', or ''caoutchouc'', as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds. Types of polyisoprene ...

science and technology".

Recipients

1980s

* 1982 J. Roger Beatty - Senior Research Fellow at B. F. Goodrich known for development of rubber testing instruments and methods * 1983 Aubert Y. Coran -

Monsanto The Monsanto Company () was an American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation founded in 1901 and headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Monsanto's best-known product is Roundup, a glyphosate-based herbicide, developed ...

researcher responsible for invention of

thermoplastic elastomer Thermoplastic elastomers (TPE), sometimes referred to as thermoplastic rubbers (TPR), are a class of copolymers or a physical mix of polymers (usually a plastic and a rubber) that consist of materials with both thermoplastic and elastomeric prop ...

Geolast * 1984 Eli M. Dannenberg - Cabot scientist known for contributions to surface chemistry of carbon black * 1985 William M. Hess - Columbian Chemicals Company scientist known for contributions to characterization of

carbon black Carbon black (with subtypes acetylene black, channel black, furnace black, lamp black and thermal black) is a material produced by the incomplete combustion of coal tar, vegetable matter, or petroleum products, including fuel oil, fluid cataly ...

dispersion in rubber * 1986 Albert M. Gessler -

ExxonMobil Exxon Mobil Corporation ( ) is an American multinational List of oil exploration and production companies, oil and gas corporation headquartered in Spring, Texas, a suburb of Houston. Founded as the Successors of Standard Oil, largest direct s ...

researcher known for development of elastomeric thermoplastics * 1987 Avrom I. Medalia - Cabot scientist known for contributions to understanding electrical conductivity and dynamic properties of carbon black filled rubbers * 1988 John G. Sommer -

GenCorp Aerojet Rocketdyne is a subsidiary of American Arms industry, defense company L3Harris that manufactures rocket, Hypersonic flight, hypersonic, and electric propulsive systems for space, defense, civil and commercial applications. Aerojet traces ...

scientist and author of popular texts on rubber technology * 1989 Joginder Lal - Goodyear Polymer Research Manager and expert in the synthesis and mechanism of the formation of high polymers.

1990s

* 1990 Gerard Kraus -

Phillips Petroleum Phillips Petroleum Company was an American oil company incorporated in 1917 that expanded into petroleum refining, marketing and transportation, natural gas gathering and the chemicals sectors. It was Phillips Petroleum that first found oil in th ...

Scientist known for developing testing standard for carbon black surface area * 1991 Charles S. Schollenberger - B. F. Goodrich chemist who invented Estane * 1992 Robert W. Layer - B. F. Goodrich chemist noted for contributions to chemistry of

imines In organic chemistry, an imine ( or ) is a functional group or organic compound containing a carbon–nitrogen double bond (). The nitrogen atom can be attached to a hydrogen or an organic group (R). The carbon atom has two additional single bo ...

* 1993 John R. Dunn - Polysar synthetic rubber research chemist * 1994 Noboru Tokita -

Uniroyal Uniroyal, formerly known as the United States Rubber Company, is an American manufacturer of tires and other synthetic rubber-related products, as well as variety of items for military use, such as ammunition, explosives, chemical weapons and op ...

and later Cabot scientist known for studying processing of elastomers * 1995 Edward N. Kresge -

Exxon Exxon Mobil Corporation ( ) is an American multinational oil and gas corporation headquartered in Spring, Texas, a suburb of Houston. Founded as the largest direct successor of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, the modern company was form ...

Chief Polymer Scientist who developed tailored

molecular weight A molecule is a group of two or more atoms that are held together by Force, attractive forces known as chemical bonds; depending on context, the term may or may not include ions that satisfy this criterion. In quantum physics, organic chemi ...

density

EPDM EPDM rubber (ethylene propylene diene monomer rubber) is a type of synthetic rubber that is used in many applications. EPDM is an M-Class rubber under ASTM standard D-1418; the ''M'' class comprises elastomers with a saturated and unsaturated co ...

elastomers * 1997 Russell A. Livigni -

Gencorp Aerojet Rocketdyne is a subsidiary of American Arms industry, defense company L3Harris that manufactures rocket, Hypersonic flight, hypersonic, and electric propulsive systems for space, defense, civil and commercial applications. Aerojet traces ...

scientist known for discovery and development of barium-based

catalysts Catalysis () is the increase in reaction rate, rate of a chemical reaction due to an added substance known as a catalyst (). Catalysts are not consumed by the reaction and remain unchanged after it. If the reaction is rapid and the catalyst ...

for the

polymerization In polymer chemistry, polymerization (American English), or polymerisation (British English), is a process of reacting monomer molecules together in a chemical reaction to form polymer chains or three-dimensional networks. There are many fo ...

of butadiene and its copolymerization with styrene to give high trans rubbers with low vinyl contentDr. Russell A. Livigni, 2013 Charles Goodyear Medalist, Rubber Chemistry and Technology, vol. 86, G2-3, 2013. * 1998 Henry Hsieh -

scientist known for contributions to polymerization chemistry * 1999 Avraam I. Isayev -

University of Akron The University of Akron is a public university, public research university in Akron, Ohio, United States. It is part of the University System of Ohio. As a STEM fields, STEM-focused institution, it focuses on industries such as polymers, advance ...

Distinguished Professor of Polymer Science known for widely used texts on rheology and polymer molding technology, as well as for development of technology for

ultrasonic Ultrasound is sound with frequencies greater than 20 kilohertz. This frequency is the approximate upper audible limit of human hearing in healthy young adults. The physical principles of acoustic waves apply to any frequency range, includi ...

devulcanization of tire rubber.

2000s

* 2000 Joseph Kuczkowski - Goodyear chemist who elucidated mechanisms of

antioxidant Antioxidants are Chemical compound, compounds that inhibit Redox, oxidation, a chemical reaction that can produce Radical (chemistry), free radicals. Autoxidation leads to degradation of organic compounds, including living matter. Antioxidants ...

function, resulting in the commercialization of several new antioxidant systems * 2002 C. Michael Roland - Naval Research Lab scientist recognized for blast and impact protection using elastomers, and for diverse contributions to elastomer science * 2003 Walter H. Waddell -

scientist recognized for his work on tire innerliner technology * 2004 Oon Hock Yeoh -

Freudenberg Freudenberg can refer to: Companies * Freudenberg Group, a German family-owned diversified group of companies Places France * Freudenberg, Moselle, a village in the French département of Moselle (department), Moselle Germany * Schloss Freuden ...

Scientist known for contributions to nonlinear elasticity and

fracture mechanics Fracture mechanics is the field of mechanics concerned with the study of the propagation of cracks in materials. It uses methods of analytical solid mechanics to calculate the driving force on a crack and those of experimental solid mechanics t ...

* 2005 Kenneth F. Castner - Senior Research and Development Associate at

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is an American multinational tire manufacturer headquartered in Akron, Ohio. Goodyear manufactures tires for passenger vehicles, aviation, commercial trucks, military and police vehicles, motorcycles, recreati ...

known for his work in nickel catalyzed diene polymerization for the synthesis of high cis-polybutadiene * 2006 Meng-Jaio Wang - Cabot scientist known for studies of

* 2007 Daniel L. Hertz Jr. - President of Seals Eastern and NASA consultant on the

Space Shuttle Challenger disaster On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger, Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard. The spacecraft disintegrated above the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Can ...

* 2008 Robert P. Lattimer -

Lubrizol Lubrizol Corporation is an American provider of specialty chemicals for the transportation, industrial and consumer markets. These products include additives for engine oils and other transportation-related fluids, additives for industrial lubr ...

Advanced Materials research and development technical fellow * 2009 Frederick Ignatz-Hoover - Eastman technology fellow and 9th editor of Rubber Chemistry and Technology

2010s

* 2010 William J. van Ooij -

University of Cincinnati The University of Cincinnati (UC or Cincinnati, informally Cincy) is a public university, public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1819 and had an enrollment of over 53,000 students in 2024, making it the ...

professor known for elucidating the mechanisms of brass-rubber adhesion in tires * 2011 Periagaram S. Ravishankar -

Senior Staff Engineer recognized for development of Vistalon EPDM elastomers * 2012 Robert Schuster - former director of the German Institute for Rubber Technology (DIK) and popular lecturer on rubber technology * 2014 Shingo Futamura - Materials scientist noted for his concept of the Deformation Index * 2015 Alan H. Muhr - TARRC scientist noted for contributions to understanding the mechanics elastomer applications, including laminated rubber isolators, marine fenders, automotive mounts, and structural energy dissipation systems * 2016 Dane Parker -

researcher known for developing a single-step process for converting

Nitrile In organic chemistry, a nitrile is any organic compound that has a functional group. The name of the compound is composed of a base, which includes the carbon of the , suffixed with "nitrile", so for example is called " propionitrile" (or pr ...

latex Latex is an emulsion (stable dispersion) of polymer microparticles in water. Latices are found in nature, but synthetic latices are common as well. In nature, latex is found as a wikt:milky, milky fluid, which is present in 10% of all floweri ...

to HNBR latex * 2017 David J. Lohse -

Materials Scientist known for contributions on thermodynamics of mixing, nanocomposites for controlling permeability, neutron scattering of polymers, rheology of polymers * 2018 Joseph Padovan -

Distinguished Professor known for pioneering

finite element Finite element method (FEM) is a popular method for numerically solving differential equations arising in engineering and mathematical modeling. Typical problem areas of interest include the traditional fields of structural analysis, heat tran ...

procedures for analysis of rolling tires. * 2019 Manfred Klüppel - German Institute for Rubber Technology department head of Material Concepts and Modeling group

2020s

* 2020 Kenneth T. Gillen -

Sandia National Labs Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), also known as Sandia, is one of three research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Headquartered in Kirtland Air Force Ba ...

researcher noted for contributions to service life prediction methods for elastomers * 2021

Howard Colvin Sir Howard Montagu Colvin (15 October 1919 – 27 December 2007) was a British architectural historian who produced two of the most outstanding works of scholarship in his field: ''A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–18 ...

- Organic chemist and consultant to the

tire A tire (North American English) or tyre (Commonwealth English) is a ring-shaped component that surrounds a Rim (wheel), wheel's rim to transfer a vehicle's load from the axle through the wheel to the ground and to provide Traction (engineeri ...

and

industries noted for developments to rubber chemicals and polymers * 2022 Anil K. Bhowmick -

University of Houston The University of Houston (; ) is a Public university, public research university in Houston, Texas, United States. It was established in 1927 as Houston Junior College, a coeducational institution and one of multiple junior colleges formed in ...

professor known for contributions to polymer nanocomposites, thermoplastic elastomers, sustainability, adhesion, failure and degradation of rubbers and rubber technology * 2023 Anke Blume - engineering technology professor at the

University of Twente The University of Twente ( ; Abbreviation, abbr. ) is a Public university, public technical university located in Enschede, Netherlands. The university has been placed in the top 170 universities in the world by multiple central ranking tables. ...

known for her contributions to

silica Silicon dioxide, also known as silica, is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula , commonly found in nature as quartz. In many parts of the world, silica is the major constituent of sand. Silica is one of the most complex and abundant f ...

and

silane Silane (Silicane) is an inorganic compound with chemical formula . It is a colorless, pyrophoric gas with a sharp, repulsive, pungent smell, somewhat similar to that of acetic acid. Silane is of practical interest as a precursor to elemental ...

chemistry for rubber applications. * 2024 Andrew V. Chapman - TARRC scientist noted for contributions to AFM microscopy of tire tread compounds. * 2025 Sunny Jacob -

scientist known for leading the development of Thermoplastic vulcanizates products and processes.{{cite news , last1=Jacob , first1=Sunny , title=Butyl and halobutyl elastomers for pharmaceutical applications , url=https://s3-prod.rubbernews.com/2023-10/RPN_20231002_tech_notebook.pdf , access-date=5 December 2024 , work=Rubber News , publisher=Crain , date=2 October 2023

References

External links

The ACS Rubber Division

Oral histories of several medal winners

Awards of the American Chemical Society Awards established in 1983 Materials science awards Rubber