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ADVANCED MATERIALS & PROCESSES • APRIL 2014 41
HIGHLIGHTS... In Memoriam ASM
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Canada Council Award Nominations due April 30
ASM’s Canada Council is seeking nominations for its
2014 awards program. These prestigious awards include:
The G. MacDonald Young Award – the ASM Canada
Council established this award in 1988 to recognize dis-
tinguished and significant contributions by an ASMmem-
ber in Canada. This award consists of a plaque in addition
to a piece of Canadian native soapstone sculpture.
M. Brian Ives Lectureship – This award was established
in 1971 by the Canada Council of ASM to identify a distin-
guished lecturer who will present a technical talk at a reg-
ular monthly meeting of each of those Canada ASM
Chapters who elect to participate. The winner receives a
$1,000 honorarium and travels to each ASM Canada
Chapter throughout the year to give their presentation at
the expense of the ASM Canada Council.
John Convey Innovation Awards – In
1977, the Canada Council created a new
award to recognize sustaining members
companies’ contributions for further de-
velopment of the materials engineering
industry in Canada. The award considers
a new product and/or service directed at the Canadian or
international marketplace. Two awards are presented
each year—one to a company with more than $5 million
in sales.
Nomination forms and award rules can be found at
For more information contact Christine Hoover at
or 440/338-5151
ext. 5509.
IN MEMORIAM
Gareth Thomas, FASM, of Irvine,
Calif., founder of UC Berkeley Lab’s Na-
tional Center for Electron Microscopy
(NCEM) and one of the world’s foremost
experts on electron microscopy, passed
away on February 7. He was 81. A native
of Wales, Thomas earned his Ph.D. in
metallurgy from Cambridge University,
and joined the Berkeley faculty in 1960, becoming a pro-
fessor of metallurgy and a faculty scientist at Berkeley Lab
in 1966. Thomas served as director of NCEM from 1983
to 1991. In 2006, he was named UC Berkeley’s Emeritus
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. Thomas
once said that the experience of using electron microscopy
to image atoms was like “gaining sight after being blind.”
He dedicated his professional life to sharing and enhanc-
ing that experience for a generation of scientists.
Thomas served on the Acta Materialia Inc. Board of
Governors and was editor-in-chief from 1995-98 of both
Acta Materialia and Scripta Materialia. He received their
Gold Medal in 2003.Thomas also won the following ASM
awards: the ASM Gold Medal (2001), Albert Sauveur
Achievement Award (1991), IMS Henry Clifton Sorby
Award (1987), ASM Fellow (1976), Grossman Publication
Award (1966), and 1965 Bradley Stoughton Teaching
Award (1965).
ASM International and The Minerals, Metals & Materi-
als Society (TMS) announce the highly anticipated first
issue of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions E: Ma-
terials for Energy Systems, a new journal of peer-reviewed,
original research, and review articles focused on the sci-
ence and technology of energy materials. A major goal of
the publication is to help advance materials solutions for
energy and environmental challenges.
The journal, published in
partnership with Springer Sci-
ence+Business Media, joins the
established Metallurgical and
Materials Transactions A:
Physical Metallurgy and Mate-
rials Science and Metallurgical
and Materials Transactions B:
Process Metallurgy and Materi-
als Processing Science publica-
tions. The journal will be
published quarterly.
The articles from the first two
volume years of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions E
will be available online for free at the SpringerLink website:
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions E is under the
editorial leadership of David Laughlin, FASM, principal ed-
itor, and editors Victorino Franco, Steven J. Zinkle, FASM,
and Sridhar Seetharaman (not pictured) who is an editor on
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, B, and E.
Laughlin is Alcoa Professor of Physical Metallurgy at
Carnegie Mellon University. Franco is a professor in the con-
densed matter physics department at Sevilla University in
Spain. Zinkle is Governor’s Chair, Department of Nuclear
Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Seethara-
man is TATA Steel and Royal Academy of Engineering Joint
Chair for Research into Low Carbon Materials Technology in
the Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) at the Univer-
sity of Warwick.
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ASM/TMS Release New Energy Materials Journal
Editors of MetTrans E include, left to right: Victorino Franco,
David Laughlin, FASM, and Steven J. Zinkle, FASM.