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Jan 25, 1921 Died on 07 Jun 2016 (aged 95)
British mechanical engineer
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About Peter Jost
- Peter Jost, (also known as Hans Peter Jost) CBE (25th January 1921 – 7th June 2016) was a British mechanical engineer.
- He was the founder of the discipline of tribology, the science and engineering of interacting surfaces in relative motion.
- In 1966, Jost published a report which highlighted the cost of friction, wear and corrosion to the UK economy (1.1-1.4% of GDP).
- It was in this eponymous report that he coined the term tribology, which has now been widely adopted.
