page_title: Charles Goodyear Medal
section_title: 1960s
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Goodyear Medal / Recipients / 1960s
caption_attribution_description: English: This sheet of synthetic rubber coming off the rolling mill at the plant is now ready for drying, B.F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio. Synthetic rubber made by the "ameripol" process is derived from butadiene (a petroleum derivative). In this rolling mill the crumbs of rubber are squeezed dry of excess water and pressed together into the blanket shown here In 1940, B.F. Goodrich Company scientist Waldo Semon developed a cheaper version of synthetic rubber known as Ameripol. It made synthetic rubber production much more cost effective.
context_page_description: The Charles Goodyear Medal is the highest honor conferred by the American Chemical Society, Rubber Division. Established in 1941, the award is named after Charles Goodyear, the discoverer of vulcanization, and consists of a gold medal, a framed certificate and prize money. The medal honors individuals for "outstanding invention, innovation, or development which has resulted in a significant change or contribution to the nature of the rubber industry". Awardees give a lecture at an ACS Rubber Division meeting, and publish a review of their work in the society's scientific journal Rubber Chemistry and Technology.
context_section_description: 1960 William B. Wiegand - researcher at Columbian Carbon Co. who demonstrated the effect of carbon black particle size on rubber reinforcement
  1961 Herbert A. Winkelmann - B. F. Goodrich developer of first commercially feasible antioxidant
  1962 Melvin Mooney - United States Rubber Company physicist and rheologist responsible for the Mooney viscometer and the Mooney-Rivlin solid constitutive relation
  1963 William J. Sparks - Exxon chemist and co-inventor of Butyl rubber
  1964 Arthur E. Juve - B. F. Goodrich Director of Technology who developed oil-resistant rubber compositions, lab tests for tire treads, and improvements in manufacture of rubber products and the processing of synthetic rubber
  1965 Benjamin S. Garvey - worked for B.F. Goodrich and Pennsalt Chemicals. Dr. Garvey developed the "10 Gram Evaluation Process."
  1966 Edward A. Murphy - Dunlop researcher credited with invention of latex foam, first marketed as Dunlopillo
  1967 Norman Bekkedahl - pioneered understanding of Glass transition in elastomers, and former Deputy Chief of the Polymers Division at the National Bureau of Standards
  1968 Paul J. Flory - Cornell University pioneer in the physical chemistry of macromolecules, later a Nobel laureate
  1969 Robert M. Thomas - Exxon chemist and co-inventor of Butyl rubber
caption: Sheet of synthetic rubber coming off the rolling mill at the plant of Goodrich (1941).  Important contributions to synthetic rubbers came from many Goodyear medalists: David Spence, Ira Williams, Joseph C. Patrick, William J. Sparks, Robert M. Thomas, Frederick W. Stavely, Arnold M. Collins, Otto Bayer, Earl L. Warrick, James D. D'Ianni, Samuel E. Horne, Jr., and Roderic Quirk
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