Frank R. Mayo (June 23, 1908 – October 30, 1987) was a research chemist who worked for a variety of companies and won the 1967 Award in Polymer Chemistry from the

American Chemical Society The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has more than 155,000 members at all d ...

due to his work on the

Mayo–Lewis equation The Mayo–Lewis equation or copolymer equation in polymer chemistry describes the distribution of monomers in a copolymer. It was proposed by Frank R. Mayo and Frederick M. Lewis.''Copolymerization. I. A Basis for Comparing the Behavior of Monome ...

Early life and education

Mayo was born on June 23, 1908 in

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. He attended the

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, receiving his B.S. in chemistry in 1929. He did his doctoral work at the

, receiving his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1931. He studied with Morris S. Kharasch.

Career

For an autobiographical account of the discovery of the peroxide effect see J. Chem. Educ., 63, 97-99(1986) and ref. 1 therein.

Awards and memberships

Mayo was involved in the Division of Polymer Chemistry (POLY) of the

(ACS), and was vice-chair in 1958 and chair in 1959, and also held the role of councilor from 1958 to 1960. CS awarded Mayo the 1967 ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry; and in 1985, he received POLY's Distinguished Service Award.

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