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JAMES BOYD
1 904-1 987
BY HARVEY A. WAGNER AND WALKER L. CISLER
AWES BOW, past president and honorary member of the ~eri-
can Institute of Mining Engineers, died on November 24, 1987.
Dr. Boyd was born in Kanowna, Western Australia, on Decem-
ber 20, 1904, and became an American citizen in October 1925
through the naturalization of his father. He had a long and
distinguished career in education, science, technology, engi-
neering, and industry. He received a B.S. in engineering and
economics from the California Institute of Technology in 1927,
with emphasis on mechanical engineering. He earned his M.Sc.
in geophysics and D.Sc. in geology at the Colorado School of
Mines, where he taught until 1941.
During World War II, he first served as army representative on
the Army and Navy Munitions Board and then on the War
Production Boarcl's Program Adjustment Committee; as execu-
tive officer to the director of material, Army Service Forces; and
as director of the Industry Division of the Office of Military
Government for Germany (OMGUS). In these duties, he was a
close associate of General Lucius Clay and became known to
Walker Cisler. Dr. Boyd received the Legion of Meritwith an Oak
Leaf Cluster for this service.
Upon his return to the United States in 1946, Dr. Boycl
became clean of the faculty at the Colorado School of Mines. In
1947 he was appointed director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines.
During the Korean War, he served, concurrently, as defense
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MEMORIAL TRIBUTES
minerals administrator. He became chairman of the White Pines
Copper Company in Michigan, a director of the Detroit Edison
Company, and closely associated with Walker Cisler and Harvey
Wagner in the development of nuclear power for the generation
of electricity. He was strongly in support of the Atoms for Peace
program.
Dr. Boyd left government service in 1951 to assume the
position of exploration manager with the Kennecott Copper
Corporation, where he was named vice-president in 1955. In
1960 he became president of Copper Range Company and
chairman of the board of directors in 1970. In 1971 he was
appointed executive director of the National Commission on
Materials Policy in Washington, D.C. The commission published
an extensive study and report in the 1973, Matinal Needs and the
Environment Today and Tomorrow. He then became chairman of
the Materials Advisory Panel of the Office of TechnologyAssess-
ment, and a consultant to government and industry.
Dr. Boyd was awarded the Hoover Medal from the American
SocietyofMechanical Engineers in 1975. He received the Charles
F. Rand Award of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgi-
cal, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) in 1963 and distinguished
alumnus awards of the California Institute of Technology in
1967 and the Colorado School of Mines in 1949. He delivered
the Jackling Lecture before the Society of Mining Engineers of
AIME (SME-AIME) in 1967, the ASM and TM~AIME Distin-
guishecT Lectureship in Materials and Society to the American
Society for Metals (ASM) and The Metallurgical Society (TMS)
in 1973, and the Edward Orton, Jr., Memorial Lecture to the
American Ceramic Society in 1974. In 1973 he was awarcled the
Ben H. Parker Memorial Medal of the American Institute of
Professional Geologists, of which he was vice-president in 1966.
The University of California, Berkeley, has published a history of
James Boyd's life, entitled Minerals and CriticalMaterials Manage-
ment: Military and Government Administrator and MiningExecutive,
1941-1987.
Dr. Boyd was a director of the Detroit Edison Company, New
Jersey Zinc, Felmont Petroleum, Copper Development Associa-
tion, and the International Copper Research Company.
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JAMES BOYD
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Dr. Boyd was elected to membership in the National Academy
of Engineering in 1967. He was active in the affairs of the
Academy for many years, and was also very active in professional
societies relating to the metals and mining industries. He pub-
lished many articles on matters relating to mining and the metals
industry.
He was first reader at the First Church of Christ Scientist in
Carmel, California. Jim Boyd was a devoted family man and is
survived by his second wife, Clemence, and four sons by his first
wife, Ruth.
The citation that accompanied Dr. Boyd's D. C. Jackling
Award from SME-AIME summarized very well his contributions
to engineering in particular and to society in general: "For his
eminent academic and administrative leadership; significant
contributions as a public servant; imaginative guidance in the
field of mineral exploration; and steadfast perseverance in
applying science and logic to mining geology, mineral research,
and technology."
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