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AUGUSTUS B
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1900-1987
KINZEL
BY WALKER L. CISLER AND HARVEY A. WAGNER
AUGUSTUS BRAWN KINZEL the first president of the National
Academy of Engineering (NAE), died on October 23, 1987, at
the age of eighty-seven. His distinguished career in research and
metallurgy included important contributions in both fields and
reflected his dedication to the engineering profession.
He was born on July 26, 1900, in New York City. His father,
Otto, was a professional pianist and his mother, Josephine
Braun, a mathematics teacher. He received an A.B., cum laude,
in mathematics in 1919 from Columbia University; a B.S. in
general engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology (MIT) in 1921; and a D. Met. Ing. in 1922, and an Sc.D.
in 1933 from the University of Nancy, France. Among other
honorary degrees he was awarded were the doctor of engineer-
ing from New York University in 1955, doctor of sciences from
Clarkson College of Technology in 1957, and doctor honoris
cause from the University of Nancy in 1963.
He began his professional career at the General Electric
Laboratories in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1919. Dr. Kinzel
joined Union Carbide Research Laboratories in 1926 as a re-
search metallurgist. He successively became chiefmetallurgistin
1931, vice-president in 1945, and president in 1948. In 1954 he
was appointed director of research for the Union Carbide
Corporation, and in 1955, vice-president of research.
He served as consultant to the Los Alamos, Oak Ridge,
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MEMORIAL TRIBUTES
Argonne, Knolls, and Brookhaven Laboratories. As a member of
the initial Manhattan District Committee for the World Control
of Atomic Energy, he helped draft the classified report that was
the working basis for the Lilienthal and Baruch plans. During
World War II he also held key advisory posts in the ordnance field
and was in charge of the metals branch of the Technical Indus-
trial Intelligence Committee in Europe. He was a member of the
Defense Science Board and the Naval Research Advisory Com-
mittee, of which he was a past chairman (1953-1954~. He was
president of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical,
and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) (1958) en c! of the Engineers
Joint Council (1960~; chairman of the Division of Engineering
and Industrial Research ofthe National Research Council ( 1960~;
and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Arneri-
can Philosophical Society, and the MIT Corporation. He was a
trustee of the California Institute of Technology, the Jet Propul-
sion Laboratory, and the Salk Research Institute, and a member
of the board of System Development Corporation of General
American Investment Company, American Ontical Comnanv.
and Beckman Instrument Company.
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Dr. Kinzel was a founding member of the NAE and was
instrumental in the formulation of its objectives on policies and
philosophies. Over the years, he has given unstintingly of his
time in serving the needs of the growing Academy. He was
certainly an important factor in the Academy's success.
However, his interests were broadened beyond engineering as
he became interested in the work of the Salk Institute for
Biological Studies and eventually became its president and chief
executive officer.
Dr. Kinzel was coauthor of the Engineering Foundation's
volumes of Alloys of Iron and Chromium and was the author or
coauthor of more than one hundred technical papers. He has
given many of the honorary memorial lectures in metallurgy,
including the Howe Memorial Lecture (AIME), the Comfort A.
Adams Lecture (the American Welding Society LAWSON, the
Burgess Memorial Lecture (American Society for Metals pASM] ),
the Albert Sauvour AchievementAward (ASM), and the Edward
DeMille Campbell Memorial Lecture (ASM). He was a recipient
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of the Samuel Wylie Miller Memorial Medal Award (AWS), a
lames Turner MoreheacT medalist (International Acetylene As-
sociation SIAM), and a Powder Metallurgy Medalist (Stevens
Institute of Technology). He received the Industrial Research
Institute Medal in May 1960 and the lames Douglas Gold Medal
(AIME) in February 1960. He was also the recipient of many
distinguished service awards, is in the Metals Progress Hall of
Fame (ASM), and was an honorary member of the Chemists
Club and Eurospace.
Dr. Kinzel was a member of the University Club of New York
City; the Racquet and Tennis Club of New York City; the Cosmos
Club of Washington, D.C.; the Beach and Tennis Club of La Tolla,
California; and several art museums and musical associations.
He was a director of the Berkshire Farm for Boys and the
International Benjamin Franklin Society. He lived in New York
City and also had a home in La Jolia, California.
"Gus" Kinzel was a man of wide-ranging interests, but he
always approached problems with the engineering system's
approach. To quote him, "The scientist is a man of the labora-
tory, the library, and the land of logic. The engineer is, and
should be, a man of affairs in a world of both changing fashions
and economic realities. The more he knows about the present,
the better engineer he'll be." The engineering profession has
benefited much from the life and contributions of Dr. Kinzel. He
was truly "A Twentieth Century Man of Affairs."
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