DuPont U.S. Rubber General Electric Research Laboratory 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 for his work on the Mayo–Lewis equation in polymer chemistry[2][3][4][5] which describes the distribution of monomers in a copolymer.
Mayo was born on June 23, 1908, in Chicago, Illinois.
He did his doctoral work at the University of Chicago, receiving his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1931.
[2][3] For an autobiographical account of the discovery of the peroxide effect see J. Chem.
Mayo was involved in the Division of Polymer Chemistry (POLY) of the American Chemical Society (ACS), and was vice-chair in 1958 and chair in 1959, and also held the role of councilor from 1958 to 1960.