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APPENDIX B 109 Appendix B Biographical Sketches of Committee Members BERNARD H. KEAR received his B.Sc., Ph.D., and D.Sc. degrees in materials science and engineering from the University of Birmingham, England. From 1958 to 1963 he was with the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, where he researched the effects of long-range ordering on the plastic properties of crystals. From 1963 to 1981 he was with the Pratt & Whitney Division of United Technologies Corporation, where he investigated the interrelationships between structure, properties, and processing in superalloys, participated in the development of single-crystal turbine blade technology, and spearheaded the development of laser surface modification treatments. From 1981 to 1986 he was scientific advisor at Exxon's Corporate Research Center, where he conducted research in chemical vapor deposition and its applicability to large-scale in situ surface modification of reactor vessels and the upgrading of the surface properties of steel structures. In 1986 he assumed his present position as State of New Jersey Professor of Materials Science and Technology at Rutgers University. He is also Director of the Center for Materials Synthesis and chairman of the Department of Mechanics and Materials Science. His current research activities are focused on chemical vapor deposition and chemical synthesis of composite materials. L. ERIC CROSS is the Director of the Materials Research Laboratory at Pennsylvania State University. He has also been Professor of Electrical Engineering since 1968 and was an Associate Professor of Physics before that. A native of Leeds, England, he received his degrees from the University of Leeds. He was employed by the British Admiralty, ICI, the British Electric Research Association, and the University of Leeds before coming to this country. His technical interests have varied widely, currently emphasizing sensors for control or for nondestructive testing.
APPENDIX B 110 JOHN E. KEEM received his education at Syracuse University (B.S.) and Purdue University (Ph.D. in physics, 1976). After a year as a fellow in the Physics Department at Purdue, he moved to the General Motors Research Laboratories. He is currently with the Ovonic Synthetic Materials Company. He has worked in conduction mechanisms in oxides and in magnetic and magnetoelastic phenomena. RICHARD W. SIEGEL received an A.B. in physics from Williams College in 1958 and an M.S. in physics in 1960 and a Ph.D. in metallurgy in 1965 from the University of Illinois in Urbana. Following two years of postdoctoral research at Cornell University, he served on the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook in the Department of Materials Science. From 1974 to the present, he has been a research scientist in the Materials Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, serving for most of this time as group leader in the areas of metal physics and defects in metals. His research has concentrated most recently on the synthesis, characterization, and properties of ultrafine-grained nanophase materials, particularly ceramics. FRANS SPAEPEN is Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard University. He received his undergraduate degree in metallurgy from the University of Leuven in Belgium and his Ph.D. in applied physics from Harvard University in 1975. He has been a faculty member of the Division of Applied Sciences at Harvard since 1977. His research interests include phase transformations, atomic transport, and mechanical properties of amorphous metals and semiconductors; the production, diffraction, stability, and mechanical properties of artificial multilayers; the structure of amorphous-crystalline interfaces and grain boundaries; and the formation and transformations of quasiperiodic crystals. KATHLEEN C. TAYLOR is head of the Physical Chemistry Department at General Motors Research Laboratories, where she oversees research activities in catalysis, surface chemistry, corrosion science, combustion, electrochemistry, batteries, electrodeposition, and chemical processes. She received her undergraduate education at Douglass College and her Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Northwestern University in 1968. She is a member of the American Chemical Society, the Materials Research Society (President in 1987), and the Society of Automotive Engineers. In 1986 Dr. Taylor was honored as the Francois Gault lecturer in catalysis in Europe and received the Garvan Medal from the American Chemical Society in 1989. EDWIN L. THOMAS is Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Massachusetts and his Ph.D. in materials science at Cornell University. He started his professional career at the University of Minnesota, then moved to the University of Massachusetts, where he headed the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, before joining MIT. His research interests are in structure-property relations in polymeric materials.
APPENDIX B 111 KING NING TU is a Senior Manager for Thin Film Science at the IBM Watson Research Center. After obtaining his B.S. at the National Taiwan University in 1960, he received his M.S. from Brown University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. In 1975â1976 he was a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University. His research interests have included phase transformations in alloys, kinetics in thin films, structural examination of materials by x-ray and electron diffraction, and device metallurgy.
