James Roger Beatty (April 9, 1917-November 25, 2010) was a B. F. Goodrich Senior Research Fellow and the first recipient of the Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award.
[3] He served in the U.S. Cavalry, Fort Riley, from which he received an honorable discharge in 1936.
Beatty moved to Akron, Ohio in 1942 to join B. F. Goodrich, working under Arthur E. Juve.
Beatty was a prolific inventor and author of scientific papers on rubber technology.
His patents included testing devices / methods for measuring cure behavior,[4] ozone cracking,[5] rubber tack[6] and cutting and chipping resistance of rubber.