HIGHLIGHTS ADVANCED MATERIALS & PROCESSES | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2024 45 IN MEMORIAM Goth Green Schmid IN MEMORIAM John W. Goth, FASM, 96, of Highland Ranch, Colorado, passed away in June 2023. He was born April 22, 1927, in Ree Heights, South Dakota. After high school, Goth enlisted in the Navy, where he became a Fireman First Class and was stationed in the Philippines during the last days of World War II. He obtained his B.S. in metallurgy at South Dakota School of Mines and a master of engineering at McGill University. He was a graduate of the Advanced Business Program at Harvard University and received an Honorary Doctor of Business Administration from the South Dakota School of Mines. Goth spent 32 years at AMAX, rising to corporate vice president and president of the AMAX Molybdenum Division. He authored several papers including annual reviews of the mining industry. Goth was a member of AIME, Colorado Mining Association, CMA Education Foundation, and ASM International. He served on the board of directors for several companies including Canada Tungsten Mining Corp., Botswana RST Ltd., Alumax Inc., and others. Robert E. Green Jr., FASM, co-founder of the department of materials science and engineering and founder of the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation at Johns Hopkins University, died on November 21, 2017. ASM International was recently made aware of his passing. The professor emeritus from Towson, Maryland, was 85 years old. Green, who came to Johns Hopkins in 1960, was an expert in techniques used to look for flaws that might lead materials to fail over time. In 1983, along with Bob Pond, Sr., FASM, Green helped establish the department of materials science and engineering, which employed five full-time faculty members and earned an international reputation based in part on Green’s research. The following year, Green established the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation. Born in 1932 on a farm in Allegheny County, Virginia, he received his bachelor’s degree in physics in 1953 from William & Mary. He then went on to study acoustic physics at Brown University, where he received his master’s degree in 1956 and his Ph.D. in 1959. He served in a number of departments in the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, including the department of mechanics from 1970-1973 and the department of civil engineering from 1979-1981. Richard Schmid, TSS-HoF, head of research and technology equipment at Oerlikon Metco in Switzerland, passed away in late 2023. He will be remembered within Oerlikon Metco and across the thermal spray industry for his leadership and expertise. After earning a B.Sc. in tribology from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, Schmid joined Sulzer in Switzerland and then earned his Ph.D. from ETH Zurich in 1997, with a focus on high temperature abradable coatings. He then transitioned to Sulzer Metco, where he advanced to the role of chief technology officer. Schmid’s hard work and vision secured Metco the status as a top innovator in thermal spray. He was a 2019 inductee of the Thermal Spray Society’s Thermal Spray Hall of Fame, a testament to his contributions and leadership in the field. His lifelong interest was developing the industry’s leading abradable materials solutions. Every aircraft engine produced in the past 20 years has an abradable coating that directly stems from Schmid’s influence and work.
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