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Microgravity Research Opportunities for the 1990s: Appendix B
Microgravity Research Opportunities
for the 1990s
B
Biographies of Committee Members
William A. Sirignano, Chair (1991-1994). Professor of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering and of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of California, Irvine. Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, Princeton
University, 1964. Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
(AIAA), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Previously served on NASA
Space Science and Applications Advisory Committee, AIAA Solid Rockets
Technical Committee, AIAA Propellants and Combustion Technical Committee,
University Space Research Association (USRA) Microgravity Science Council,
and the Combustion Institute Executive Committee and Board of Directors.
Research interests: spray combustion, turbulent combustion, ignition,
aerospace propulsion, automotive combustion, energy conservation and
pollution, fire research, noise suppression, and applied mathematics.
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Rosalia N. Andrews. Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University
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of Alabama at Birmingham. Ph.D., University of Florida, 1976. Coinvestigator on
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USML-1 and USML-2 HgZnTe crystal growth experiments. Member, Executive
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Committee of the American Crystal Growth Association. Research interests:
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bulk growth and characterization of group II-VI semiconducting compounds.
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CHAPTER 2 Howard M. Einspahr. Research Fellow and Director, Macromolecular
PART II Crystallography, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. Ph.D., Chemistry, University of
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Pennsylvania, 1970. Previously served on NASA Advanced Protein Crystal
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Growth Advisory Committee. Research interests: protein structure, drug design.
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Martin E. Glicksman, Chair (1994-1997). Professor of Materials Science,
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Department of Materials Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Ph.D.,
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Physical Metallurgy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1961. Principal investigator
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for Isothermal Dendritic Growth Experiments on USMP-2 (March 1994).
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Research interests: solidification and crystal growth of metals and alloys,
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surface energy studies, defects and diffusion in metals, thermodynamics of
stressed systems, interfacial phenomena in metals, metallurgy of
superconductors.
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Franklin D. Lemkey. United Technologies Research Center. Ph.D., Metal
Physics, Oxford University. Fellow of the American Society for Metallurgists
(ASM). Chair, Editorial Review Board of Metallurgical Transactions. Previously,
Director of NASA Microgravity Science and Applications Division (1989) and
Chair of NASA's Space Station Science and Applications Users Committee
(1988). Currently serves on the National Research Council (NRC) Space Station
Committee of the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board. Research
interests: collaborative research and development activities with the new
independent states of the former Soviet Union.
Ronald E. Loehman. Manager, Advanced Materials Laboratory, Sandia National
Laboratories. Ph.D., Solid State Chemistry, Purdue University, 1969. Fellow,
American Ceramic Society. Associate editor of the Journal of the American
Ceramic Society. Research interests: glass-metal and ceramic-metal reactions
and interface bonding, preparation and properties of nitrogen ceramics and
glasses, electrical and thermal behavior of ceramics and glasses.
Alexander McPherson. Professor of Biochemistry, University of California,
Riverside. Ph.D., Biological Sciences, Purdue University, 1970. Principal
investigator for protein crystal growth (PCG) experiments on IML-1, IML-2, U.S.-
Russian Mir-Shuttle Mission. Research interests: analysis and determination of
the atomic structures of biological macromolecules by x-ray diffraction techniques
and their correlation with mechanistic properties.
Simon Ostrach. Professor of Engineering, Case Western Reserve University.
Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 1950. Member, National Academy
of Engineering (NAE; currently Home Secretary); Fellow of the American
Academy of Mechanics, AIAA; Honorary Member of the ASME. Research
interests: fluid mechanics, natural convection, transport phenomena in industrial
processes, physiochemical fluid dynamics.
Morton B. Panish. AT&T Bell Laboratories (retired). Ph.D., Physical Chemistry,
1954. Previously, Head of the AT&T Bell Laboratories Material Science Research
Department. Member, NAE and National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Fellow of
the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE). Research interests: group III-V compound phase chemistry,
impurity incorporation, epitaxy, device structures.
John D. Reppy. Professor of Physics, Cornell University. Ph.D., Physics, Yale
University, 1961. Member NAS; Fellow of the American Physical Society,
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, New York Academy of Sciences, and
AAAS. Research interests: low-temperature physics, quantum properties of
superconductors and superfluid helium, cooperative and critical phenomena.
Warren C. Strahle (deceased). Regents Professor, School of Aerospace
Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering,
Princeton University, 1964. Fellow AIAA. Previously served on the NASA
Microgravity Combustion Discipline Working Group; AIAA Aeroacoustics
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Technical Committee, Solid Rockets Committee, Propellants and Combustion
Committee. Associate editor of the AIAA Journal. Research interests: liquid and
solid rocket combustion stability, thrust vector control, external and supersonic
combustion, tactical and strategic missile preliminary design, ramjet combustion
stability, combustion noise, diesel engine noise, underwater explosions, and
turbulent reacting flows.
Julia R. Weertman. Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern
University. Ph.D., Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon
University), 1951. Member NAE; Fellow of the ASM International and of the
Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society. Research interests: mechanical
behavior of metals and alloys, especially nanostructured materials, structural
characterization.
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