Peter Jost

H. Peter Jost, (also known as Hans Peter Jost) CBE (25 January 1921 – 7 June 2016) was a British mechanical engineer. He is the founder of the discipline of tribology. Tribology is the science and engineering of interacting surfaces in relative motion.

Shortly before his death he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering but he died before the Academy's AGM at which this was announced.

He died on 7 June 2016 at the age of 95.

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