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HARVEY W. SCHADLER

1931–2014

Elected in 1991

“For exceptional leadership in development and applying advanced materials and processes for the electrical and aircraft engine industries.”

BY JIM WILLIAMS

HARVEY WALTER SCHADLER, technical director (retired) at the General Electric Corporate Research Center in Niskayuna, New York, died November 30, 2014, at the Hospice Inn, Saint Peter’s Hospital in Albany, at age 83 from complications related to Alzheimer’s.

Harvey was born January 4, 1931, in Cincinnati, to Harvey George Schadler and Ida Beinert Schadler. He graduated from Walnut Hills High School in 1949 and, with a John McMullen Scholarship, attended Cornell University, where he was a member of Tau Beta Pi and Quill and Dagger. He graduated magna cum laude with a BS in physical metallurgy in 1954.

While at Cornell, he met Margaret (Margy) Eleanor Horsfall of Hamden, Connecticut, daughter of James Gordon Horsfall and Sue Belle Overton Horsfall. They married in New Haven on August 28, 1954.

After Harvey received his PhD in metallurgical engineering from Purdue University in 1957 the couple moved to Schenectady, where Harvey worked at the General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center until he retired in 1996. He created an environment that encouraged new ideas, risk taking, effective communication, teamwork, and technical excellence. His technical achievements included involvement

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in coproducing the first major interpretation and compilation of microstructure-property relationships in superconductors.

He was an expert in high-temperature materials for turbines, both on land and in aircraft, and nuclear applications. He also was very knowledgeable in magnetic materials, corrosion and wear, gas-metal interactions, and materials processing, among other areas. He acquired such knowledge during his management assignments because he was both a very smart individual and a great listener. During his long and distinguished career at the GE Corporate Research and Development Center, he became something of a “corporate memory” for materials science and engineering at the company.

His breadth of knowledge made him a particularly effective member of National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and National Research Council (NRC) committees, where he contributed without being overly forceful or insistent about his views being accepted. From 1991 through 2007 he was either the chair or a member of 20 such activities, representing a signficant commitment of his time. He chaired the NRC Committee on Materials Research for Defense-After-Next (1999–2002) and was a member of the Board on Army Science and Technology (1992–97) and Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (1996–2000). For the NAE, he was active on the Materials Engineering Peer and Executive Committees and in the Materials Engineering Section, with terms as vice chair and chair.

He was a fellow of ASM International and in 1966 won the Alfred H. Geisler Memorial Award, which recognizes an outstanding young materials scientist/engineer, from its Eastern New York chapter. In 1992 he received Purdue University’s Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award. In his acceptance talk, his advice to students included the following:

Work hard and learn all you can. Whatever you choose to do, dedicate yourself to it, involve yourself in it fully, and make sure that you keep a broad perspective on what is going on in the world. Think about the whole problem…not just the

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This is the 22nd Volume in the series Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and outstanding achievements of its members and foreign associates. These volumes are intended to stand as an enduring record of the many contributions of engineers and engineering to the benefit of humankind. In most cases, the authors of the tributes are contemporaries or colleagues who had personal knowledge of the interests and the engineering accomplishments of the deceased. Through its members and foreign associates, the Academy carries out the responsibilities for which it was established in 1964.

Under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering was formed as a parallel organization of outstanding engineers. Members are elected on the basis of significant contributions to engineering theory and practice and to the literature of engineering or on the basis of demonstrated unusual accomplishments in the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology. The National Academies share a responsibility to advise the federal government on matters of science and technology. The expertise and credibility that the National Academy of Engineering brings to that task stem directly from the abilities, interests, and achievements of our members and foreign associates, our colleagues and friends, whose special gifts we remember in this book.

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