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Materials of Construction The fourth ;~nnual(:hcrnical Engineering \laterials of (konstruetiorr Review presents thirteen review articles t h a t survey t h e literature available since t h e 1940 review. Irnmerliatelg following t h e review articles is a 51-page tahulnr section listing t h r chemical and physical properties of a number of chemical engineering materials. This is t h e recnnd appearance of tahular d a t a since this review started. T h e first rompilation, which this tabulation supplements, appeared in o u r second a n n u a l Materials of ( h n s t r u c t i o n Review, October 1948.
The Editors
ALUMINUM ALLOYS 1955
ELLIS D. VERPNIC, JR., graduated from Purdue University in 19t1, receiving a B.S. in metallurgical engineering. He was commissioned in the U. S. Navy a t graduation and aerved a t Portsmouth, N. Is., Navy Yard until December 1945. Since 1946 Verink has been with the Development Division of the Aluminum Company of America; in 1948 he became head of the Chemical Section of that division. He has written several papers on chemical corrosion. IIARRY W. FRITTS received his B.S. in chemical engineering in 1945 and his M.S. in industrial management in 1948 from Columhia University. €€eserved for over 3 years in the U. S. Navy. In 1948 Fritts joined the Sales Development Division of the Aluminum Company of America where he is working on the application of aluminum alloys in the chemical and process industries. H e i s ai momher of the American Chemical Society.
CEMENTS 1957
CERAMICS 1961
C. R. PAYNE attended the University of Kansas (A.B., 1927; M.>., 1928) and the University of Pittsburgh (Ph.D., 1931). From 1928 to 1935,Payne was an industrial fellow at the Mellon Institute. From 1935 to 1948, he was vice president and technical director of The Atlas Mineral Products Company. Now he is president of Electro Chemical Supply and Engineering Company. Payne is a meniher of the American Chemical Society.
JOHN H. KOENIG is a graduate of Ohio State University, Ph.lj., 1938. Industrial associations include: General Electric Company, Pittsfield Laboratory (1931-35); Engineering Experiment Station, Ohio State University, as U. S. Potters Association fellow (1935-38)t and Hall China Company as ceramist (1938-42); director of School of Ceramics and N. J. Ceramic Research Station a t Rutgern University. In 1942 to 1945 he served in the U. S. Navy. ROBERT N. THOMAS attended Ohio State University (B.Cer.E.,
1942; M.Sc., 1946) and Rutgers University (Ph.D., 1949). From 1942 to 1946 he was a meteorologist with the U. S. Army Air Corps. In 1946 he became an instructor in ceramics a t Rutgers and since 1949 has been assistant professor in the School of Ceramics at Rutgers. He is the author of several papers including an extensive research on the phase equilibria of the barium oxidealumina-silica system.
COPPER, WROUGHT, AND COPPER-BASE ALLOYS 1970
C. LAWRENCE BULOW attended Bridgeport University while working as laboratory assistant a t the Bridgeport Brass Coinpan? where he was first employed in 1927. Later he was in charge of the chemical and spectrographic laboratories and for the past 9 yeare has studied the corrosion resistance of copper and copper-haw alloys under a variety of conditions. Bulow has published several technical papers in this field.
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ELASTOMERS 1978
FIBERS 1983
IIARRY L. FISHER, the sixth recipient of the Charles Goodyear Medal, is a graduate of Williams College and Columbia University (Ph.D., 1912). He was a research chemist for 7 years a t B. F. Goodrich Company, for 10 years a t U. s. Rubber Company, and director of organic research a t U. S. Industrial Chemicals from 1936 until his retirement early this year. Since his retirement Fisher has been associated with the National Research Council.
C. S . GROVE, JR., is a graduate of Lenoir Rhyne College; he received his B.S. in chemical engineering from N. C. State College in 1928; his M.S. from M.I.T. in 1934; and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1942. Grove is professor of chemical engineering a t Syracuse; previous positions were with N. C. State College, University of Minnesota, and State University of Iowa. From 1941 to 1945 he was research engineer in the Rayon Department of Du Pont. JOSEPH L. VODONIK studied chemical engineering a t the University of Minnesota where he received the degrees of B.Ch.E. in 1939 and Ph.D. in 1947. From 1944 until 1946 he did exploratory research for the National Defense Research Corporation. Since 1947 Vodonik has been a research engineer a t Du Pont, first with the Rayon Department and now with the Films Department, engaged in continuous processing of polymer manufacture for fibers and film. ROBERT S. CASEY obtained his M.S. in 1920 from Trinity College (Conn.). As a chemist with W. A. Sheaffer Pen Company, he developed Skrip writing fluid; in 1924 he became manager of the Skrip factory, in 1936 manager of the company’s research laboratory, and in 1943 director of research. Casey is a licensed professional engineer and in 1946 received the Anson Marston Award of the Iowa Engineering Society.
IRON, MILL) STEELS, AND LOWALLOY STEELS 1986
C. P. LARRABEE was graduated firom the University of Maine in 1919 with a B.S. in chemical engineering. Until 1929 he was employed by the Chemistry Division of the National Bureau of Standards; after that time he joined the staff of the Research Laboratory of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Since 1935 he has supervised the corrosion work on all products of the corporation except tin plate.
S. C. SNYDER was graduated from Pennsylvania State College in 1927 with a B.S. in electrochemical engineering. He is associated with the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. From 1937 to 1940 he was silicon steel supervisor and later development engineer for electrical sheet and strip. In 1943 his duties were broadened to cover high strength-low alloy steels. Now he is in the Research and Development Division as supervisor of research associates.
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NICKEL AND HIGHNICKEL ALLOYS 1990
PLASTICS 2001
RUBBER, HARD 2oM
STEELS, STAIIV LES S, AND OTHER FERROUS ALLOYS 2009
11. 0. TEEPLE graduated from the University of Michigan in 1937
(B.S.Ch.E.) and in July of that year became associated with the Westvaco Chemical Division of Food Machinery and Cheniical Corporation. In 1944Teeple joined the Corrosion Engineering Section, Development and Research Dib ision of The International Nickel Company, Inc. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and the Electrochemical Society.
GORDON .M.KLINE, Colgate University, ii.B., George Washington Ilniversity, M.S., and University of Maryland, Ph.D., 1934. A s a research chemist he has been connected with the New York State Department of Health, the Picatinny Arsenal, and finally the National Bureau of Standards, where he is chief of the Organic Plastics Section. He is technical editor of Modern Plastics and editorial director of Modern Plastics Encyclopedia.
HENRY PETERS received his B.S. degret? in chemistry a t the I'olytechnic Institute of Broolclyn in 1934. In 1922he joined the Western Electric Company in the field of electrochemistry. Since 1925 he has been associated with the Bell Telephone Laboratories and in 1927 began work on rubber problems. A t the present time he is i n charge of general rubber problems and co-author of several papers pertaining to rubber chemistry and technology.
WILLIAM B. DELONG, a graduate of Cornell University, holds the degrees of B.Chem. and M.Cheni. from this university. In 1936 he joined the Engineering Research Laboratory of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Inc., and has been engaged in the investigation and application of materials of construction to chemical process conditions. This work has included research on the corrosion of the stainless steels and o t h e r melallir materials. PHILIP &I. YEKM4II graduated from < :ornell University with the degree of B.S. in chemical engineering in 1943. Since graduation he has worked as research engineer a t the Engineering Kesearch Laboratory of nu Pont in the lield of materials of ronst~uction for chemical process equipment. During recent years, Periuar has conducted research on factors affecting the Corrosion reqistance of stainless steels.
TIN AND ITS ALLOYS 2020
LESS COMMON METALS 2023
KOBERT J. NEKERVIS attended the Michigan College of Rlining and Technology (B.S., 1934) and the Colorado School of Mines (E.Met., 1940). From 1940 to 1942 he was metallurgist in CarnegieIllinois Steel Company's Gary Tin Mill. From 1942 to 1949 he was assistant supervisor of nonferrous metallurgical research a t Battelle Memorial Institute. A t present he is supervisor of metallurgical research and development a t the Tin Research Institute, Inc.
D. B. BKOUGEITON received his R.S.Ch.E. from Pennsylvania State College in 1938 and his M.S. and Sc.D. from M.I.T. in 1939 and 1943, respectively. Broughton has been associated with the Division of Industrial Cooperation a t M.I.T., carrying on research on propertieb of underwater paints. He was assistant professor of chemical engineering a t M.I.T. from 1946 to 1949. .At present he is research engineer with Universal Oil Products Company.
