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IN MEMORIAM
with Ametek Inc. for seven years and worked at Hoeganaes
Corp. for 25 years before that.
Paranthaman Named AAAS Fellow
The American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS)
recently
named
Mariappan
Parans Paranthaman, FASM,
of
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(ORNL), as a new fellow. Parantha-
man is a distinguished research
staff member and leader of the
materials chemistry group of
ORNL’s Chemical Sciences Divi-
sion, and also serves on the faculty for the University of Ten-
nessee’s Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and
Graduate Education. He is cited by the AAAS “for distin-
guished contributions to the field of chemistry, including
materials for superconductors, solar cells, lithium ion bat-
teries, and processing of magnetic materials.” Paranthaman
will be honored at the AAAS annual meeting in February.
Mr. Rare Earth Aims to Retire
Karl A. Gschneidner Jr.,
FASM,
will formally retire
effective January 5 after a dis-
tinguished career that led him
to become internationally rec-
ognized as “Mr. Rare Earth.”
Gschneidner, who turned 85 in
November, has dedicated his
career to the study of rare
earth metals. He is a distin-
guished professor of materials
science and engineering at
Iowa State University, a senior metallurgist at the Ames Labo-
ratory, and chief scientist of the Critical Materials Institute.
Although Gschneidner will officially retire, he will keep the
same office he has had since 1963 and will stay involved in
research. “The biggest difference in being retired will be that
I don’t have to be here for meetings! I can just concentrate
on the research,” he says.
IN MEMORIAM
Morris E. Fine, FASM,
the Wal-
ter P. Murphy Professor Emeri-
tus of Materials Science and
Engineering and the Techno-
logical
Institute
Professor
Emeritus of Materials Science
and Engineering at Northwest-
ern University, passed away on
September 30, 2015, at age 97.
He received his Ph.D. in metal-
lurgy from the University of Minnesota in 1943 and was a
member of Northwestern’s faculty since 1954. Along
with colleague Don Whitmore, Fine co-created the Uni-
versity’s department of metallurgy in 1955 and became
its first chair. In 1958, the world’s first department of
materials science was born. Fine came to Northwestern
with a range of experiences that included work with the
Manhattan Project in Chicago and Los Alamos and later
with Bell Labs in New Jersey. Although he retired from
Northwestern in 1988, he continued to be an active
member of the community until his final days. Fine
enjoyed an extensive list of honors throughout his
career, including the ASM Gold Medal in 1986.
Kempton H. Roll, FASM,
founding executive director of
the Metal Powder Industries
Federation (MPIF), died on
November 4, 2015, at age 92.
He attended Carnegie Institute
of Technology and graduated
from Yale University in 1945
with a degree in metallurgical
engineering and served in the
Pacific during WWII as a bomb disposal officer with the
U.S. Navy. He earned a master’s degree from Brooklyn
Polytechnic Institute in 1953. Well known in the national
and international metalworking communities, Roll
retired in 1988 after a 40-year career. He joined the Lead
Industries Association in 1948 as technical director with
responsibilities for the former Metal Powder Association
(MPA), forerunner of MPIF. He was named executive
director of MPA in 1956 and helped found MPIF in 1957 as
the umbrella organization representing different sectors
of the metal powder producing and consuming indus-
tries. Roll was a member of ASM since 1946.