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Smith Celebrates 100th Birthday
Raymond L. Smith, FASM,
celebrates his 100 year mark this
month and ASM wishes him a
happy and healthy year ahead.
Born in 1917, Smith is ASM’s
oldest member and oldest past
president, serving as our Soci-
ety’s leader in 1980. He became
a Fellow in 1972 and received
Honorary Membership in 1984.
Smith retired as president of
Michigan Technological University in 1979, after serving in
this role for 16 years. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees
in mining engineering from the University of Alaska and
earned his Ph.D in metallurgical engineering from the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania. Smith has written extensively on the
history of gold and was the invited keynote speaker at the
100th anniversary of the Klondike gold discovery in Alaska
in 1897. Among his post-retirement activities, he has been
involved in finding and recording the location of abandoned
mines in and for the state of Arizona. Happy birthday, Ray!
Rao Receives Platinum Medal Award
K. Bhanu Sankara Rao,
FASM,
Ministry of Steel chair
professor (Government of India)
at Mahatma Gandhi Institute
of
Technology,
Hyderabad,
received the Platinum Medal
Award from the Indian Institute
of Metals for his outstanding
contributions to the metallurgi-
cal profession, research and aca-
demia, and the Indian Institute
of Metals. The award ceremony took place at the National
Metallurgists Day celebrations held at the Indian Institute of
Technology, Kanpur, on November 14, 2016.
Liu Selected for 2018 William
Hume-Rothery Award
Zi-Kui Liu, FASM,
was cho-
sen by The Minerals, Metals &
Materials Society to receive the
2018 William Hume-Rothery
Award, established in 1972 to
honor a great pioneer in alloy
phases. The award presenation
will take place at the TMS-AIMI
annual meeting, to be held in
Phoenix in March 2018.
Johnson Named Fellow of National
Academy of Inventors
WilliamL. Johnson, FASM,
a professor at Caltech, was
named a fellow of the National
Academy of Inventors (NAI),
which honors “academic inven-
tors who have demonstrated a
prolific spirit of innovation in
creating or facilitating outstand-
ing inventions that have made a
tangible impact on quality of life,
economic development, and the
welfare of society.” Johnson’s
research includes pioneering work with metallic materials
such as bulk metallic glasses, noncrystalline metals with
an amorphous atomic structure, and unusual engineering
properties.
Rosei Elected to World Academy of Art
and Science
Federico Rosei, FASM,
director of the INRS Énergie
Matériaux Télécommunications
Research Center, has been
elected a member of the World
Academy of Art and Science for
outstanding contributions to sci-
entific research and technologi-
cal innovation in the synthesis
and characterization of multi-
functional materials and their
integration in devices. He is the first INRS professor to join
this prestigious academy, which includes numerous Nobel
laureates.