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 | S E P T E M B E R 2 0 2 2 4 7 strong brand identity and reputation in the field of phase diagrams. The J. Willard Gibbs Phase Equilibria Award is endowed by QuesTek Innovations LLC. In addition to many other contributions, Gibbs laid the thermodynamics foundations of phase equilibria with his brilliant essay, “On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances,” published in 1876 and in 1878 in the Transactions of the Connecticut Academy. he was catching up on work. Jim recalls, “My dad often recruited me to operate the movie projector for some of the MEI courses that were held in the basement, and I could spout random facts about phase diagrams and other topics. My high school science projects were on corrosion and hardness testing. Guess who my advisor was!” Bhadeshia Named 2022 Henry Clifton Sorby Awardee Harry Bhadeshia, the 47th Sorby awardee, is the Emeritus Tata Steel Professor at the University of Cambridge and professor of metallurgy at Queen Mary University of London. At age 16, he was employed by the British Oxygen Company as a technician in their metallurgical quality control laboratories. The company sponsored him to complete his undergraduate course of study at the City of London Polytechnic. Prof. Robert Honeycombe of Cambridge University was an external examiner for the course and encouraged Bhadeshia to join him to conduct Ph.D. research on steels. Bhadeshia obtained his doctorate in 1979 and subsequently became a Science Research Council Fellow followed by an academic appointment at Cambridge. He has been a metallurgist for 51 years. Bhadeshia has published more than 700 research papers and seven books. His books published last year include Theory of Transformations in Steels, and with Debroy, Innovations in Everyday Engineering Materials. His research and other materials are freely available online at www.phase-trans.msm.cam.ac.uk, which is considered the largest freely available metallurgical resource in the world. Bhadeshia’s Sorby Award Lecture, entitled “Choreography of Atoms during the Bainite Transformation,” will be held at IMAT 2022 in New Orleans on Tuesday, Septem- ber 13, 10:50 to 11:50 a.m. at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Thermal Spray Hall of Fame Seeks Nominations The Thermal Spray Hall of Fame, established in 1993 by the Thermal Spray Society (TSS) of ASM International, recognizes and honors outstanding leaders who have made significant contributions to the science, technology, practice, education, management, and advancement of thermal spray. For a copy of the rules, nomination form, and list of 2022 SORBY AWARDEE Bhadeshia MEI Memories Recent visitors to ASM headquarters this summer, Jim Brasunas and his wife, An, of St. Louis, were treated to an on-the-spot VIP tour. Jim’s father, Dr. Anton deSales Brasunas (1919-2005), was the founding director (1955-1964) of ASM’s education program, MEI (originally called Metals Engineering Institute, later changed to Materials Engineering Institute). The elder Brasunas, who earned a Ph.D. in metallurgy from MIT, started with ASM when the organization was still on Euclid Avenue in downtown Cleveland. He became very close to ASM’s first national secretary, William Hunt Eisenman, whom he considered a mentor. Jim and his sisters, Anne Buzzard and Kay Pearlstein, grew up in Russell Township and spent countless hours at ASM, first as the building was under construction, and later as their dad took them to the Dome on weekends when Anton Brasunas (left), during the construction of ASM’s headquarters, describing the view to metal treating experts from Japan. Photo taken April 11, 1959.
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