Lewis Ferry Moody 1880 - 1953, was an American engineer and professor and is known for the Moody Diagram

Moody chart

The Moody chart or Moody diagram is a graph in non-dimensional form that relates the Darcy friction factor, Reynolds number and relative roughness for fully developed flow in a circular pipe...

, which is in non-dimensional form and relates the friction factor, Reynolds number and relative roughness for fully developed flow in a circular pipe.

He was the first Professor of Hydraulics in the School of engineering at Princeton

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

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Life

Lewis F. Moody as professor of fluid mechanics and machine design arrived in 1930 at Princeton.

He has 23 patents for his inventions.

Awards

He was awarded the Elliott Cresson Medal

Elliott Cresson Medal

The Elliott Cresson Medal, also known as the Elliott Cresson Gold Medal, was the highest award given by the Franklin Institute. The award was established by Elliott Cresson, life member of the Franklin Institute, with $1,000 granted in 1848...

 in 1945.

He was awarded an Honorary Membership of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers is a professional body, specifically an engineering society, focused on mechanical engineering....

 (ASME) in 1951.

Only five years after his death, ASME created an Award to his honours: The Lewis F. Moody award, which is awarded for outstanding original papers useful to the practice of mechanical engineering by the Fluids Engineering Division (FED).