Background
Mooney was born in Kansas City, Missouri.
Mooney was born in Kansas City, Missouri.
He worked for the United States Rubber Company. He developed the Mooney viscometer (used to measure Mooney viscosity) 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 is the namesake of the Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award of the American Chemical Society Rubber Division.