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Compiled by Jhumpa Mukherjee | VAS Tribology Solutions
INSPIRATION
GREAT PIONEERS
THAT INSPIRE US
At Machinery Lubrication India, we constantly
endeavor to enhance the content of our publication.
Keeping in mind the interest of our subscribers, we are
starting a special section ‘Great Pioneers that inspire
us’.
We have great pioneers who made a profound impact
on industry and academia with their works, inventions,
research and writings. One of them was Dr Hans Peter
Jost. He needs no introduction to the professionals and
academicians in the field of tribology and lubrication.
In this section, we will look at the life, the challenges
and the achievements of Dr Jost, one of the most
outstanding pioneers of all time.
Although the discipline of tribology, the
study of friction, wear and lubrication,
was only named in the 1960s, it had been
a crucial aspect of human endeavour
for millennia. An Egyptian bas-relief
showed workers dragging a statue on
a wooden sled while another man was
pouring liquid on to the track ahead of
it to smooth its progress. He was the
world's first recorded tribologist, Hans
Peter Jost.
Professor Peter Jost was pre-eminent in
tribology (the study of friction), which
he conceived, developed, applied and
promoted with exceptional vigour
during his years of career. A distinguished
contributor to professional and public
life, there can hardly be another British
engineer with more worldwide honours
and decorations, nor anyone more
active in promoting engineering.
We cannot deny that he made the world
1921
Born on January 25
1943
Started his career
as Planning Engineer
at D Napier & Son Ltd.
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1948
Got married to
Margaret Kadesh
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spin a little more smoothly. However,
separate German, USA, Canadian,
Chinese, UK and Japanese surveys,
based on his ground breaking 1966
study for the Department of Education
and Science and his subsequent papers,
have concluded that tribology, the
interdisciplinary science and engineering
of interacting surfaces in relative motion,
mitigates costly friction and wear effects
to the enormous extent of 1.1% to 1.4%
of gross domestic product.
1950
Became general
manager of international
lubricants company Trier
Bros
1969
Honoured by
the heads of state of
France, Germany,
Poland, Austria and Japan