(Hans) Peter Israel Jost, CBE (25 January 1921 – 7 June 2016) [1 ] [2 ] was a British mechanical engineer. He was the founder of the discipline of tribology, [3 ] [4 ] the science and engineering of interacting surfaces in relative motion.
The International Tribology Council is an international organisation of Tribology Societies, Groups and Associations. ITC is a Corresponding Member of Unesco.