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HIGHL IGHTS A D V A N C E D M A T E R I A L S & P R O C E S S E S | O C T O B E R 2 0 2 1 6 5 IN MEMORIAM Sören Segerberg, FASM, passed away July 27 at age 78. Born in 1943, he graduated from thematerials science and engineering programat KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, in 1968 with a degree in metallurgical science. He worked for 25 years at the Institute for Engineering Technology Research (IVF, today RISE) in Gothenburg, Sweden. He is the author or co-author of more than 30 R&D reports. Segerberg was a leading expert in the quenching area and was one of the initiators of the development and sale of IVF’s Quenchotest/ivf SmartQuench for quality control of cooling curve measurement. After 35 years on the market, this equipment remains an international leader with customers and agents in about 40 countries. Segerberg was also a contributor to the development of ASTM D6200 and ISO 9950. Segerberg was awarded Fellowship by ASM in 2004, “for sustainable development of quenching technology and leadership in the global heat treating industry, including research leading to the understanding of quenching principles and for the development of testing equip- ment for gas and liquid quenchant characterization.” He was a member of the international heat treatment association IFHTSE as well as ASM and its cooling committees and work groups. He was also a member of the German heat treatment association AWT and one of the first recipients of the Karl-Wilhelm-Burgdorf Prize. A memoriam session for Sören Segerberg will be arranged at the 27th IFHTSE Congress in Salzburg, Austria, September 5-8, 2022. Samuel Pershing Grant, 100, of Wesley Chapel, N.C., passed away May 24, 2019, at his res- idence. He was born on October 22, 1918, in Chattanooga, Tenn., and served in the United States Army Corps of Engineers during World War II in Italy and North Africa as a Second Lieutenant. He earned a master’s degree in physics from Georgia Tech and worked as a nuclear engineer at Car- olina Power & Light. He was a member of the ASM Carolinas Central Chapter. In remembrance, Prof. M. Grace Burke, FASM, thanked “the late great Sam Grant” during her Henry Clifton Sorby lecture at IMAT 2021 in St. Louis. Word has been received at ASM Headquarters of the death of Life Member AbrahamA. Sheinker, 81, of Youngstown, Ohio. He was an ASM member for 59 years and a member of the ASM Warren Chapter. Segerberg Grant IN MEMORIAM