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Robert I. Jaffee
Pages 88-91

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... In 1974 Bob "retired" from Battelle and joined the then new Electric Power Research Institute REPRO. There he developed a material support activity, retiring as senior technical adviser in 1989.
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... He was a member of numerous committees of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Research Council, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Advanced Group for Aeronautical Research and Development of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Bob's research activity at Battelle was concerned with nonferrous metals, and in particular, titanium and its alloys.
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... However, at EPRI he also became an authority on ferrous metallurgy and led an important international program to develop superclean steels for turbine rotors and related applications, demonstrating that the control of minor constituents or impurities in the steed could greatly improve its toughness and stability. Bob was quick in identifying a potential materials problem in an advancing technology, or an opportunity for a useful materials development; and he was tireless in pursuing it to its solution, irrespective of the obstacles.
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