HIGHLIGHTS ADVANCED MATERIALS & PROCESSES | APRIL 2024 66 IN MEMORIAM IN MEMORIAM Scott Williams Beckwith, age 82, of Taylorsville, Utah, died on February 7. Born on February 1, 1942, in New York, Beckwith received his bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from Texas A&M University. He later earned a master’s degree in aeronautics (materials) at the California Institute of Technology. While out west, he served as a Captain in the Air Force at Edwards Air Force Base, working in the Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory. Beckwith then returned to Texas A&M where he earned a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary engineering (mechanics, materials, and structures). Upon graduation, he moved to Utah to work for Hercules Inc. He was a member of the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) for nearly 50 years and later became an employee of the organization, serving in many roles including global technical director and SAMPE Journal editor-in-chief. He also started a personal consulting company, Beckwith Technology Group Composites Inc. Beckwith was recognized with multiple awards, including the SAMPE Distinguished Service Award-Inaugural (2016) and SAMPE Mort Kushner Lifetime Achievement Award (2023). He held presidential appointments (under both Bushes and Clinton for 12 years) to serve on U.S. Department of Commerce committees. The work involved expert negotiations on clarifying materials such as fibers and resins for or against export under the U.S. Export Administration Regulations system. A longtime member of ASM International, Beckwith served on the ASM Handbook Committee. Günter Petzow, FASM, passed away on February 4 at age 97. Born on July 8, 1926, in Nordhausen, Germany, Petzow dedicated his life to science and education. With a degree in chemistry from the University of Stuttgart, he built a career through groundbreaking contributions in powder metallurgy, metallography, thermodynamics, and ceramics. He had a special affinity for the metallographic community and built close ties among ASM’s International Metallographic Society (IMS). More than 60 years ago, he founded the bilingual monthly journal Praktische Metallographie (Practical Metallography - Preparation, Imaging and Analysis of Microstructures), which is still published worldwide. He was responsible for training metallographers in Stuttgart and, together with his team, wrote the well-known Petzow Etching Book (Metallographic, Ceramographic, Plastographic Etching), which has been translated into numerous languages. He was a member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde (DGM) for 64 years, serving as chairman from 1989-1990, and earning the title of Honorary Member in 1997. In 2014, he was appointed as Honorary President. Petzow’s accomplishments were recognized by prestigious awards such as the Honda Prize, Arthur Burkhardt Prize, Federal Cross of Merit First Class, Skaupy Prize, as well as the DGM’s Heyn Commemorative Medal. He received seven honorary doctorates and six honorary professorships. In addition, Petzow was the IMS Henry Clifton Sorby Award winner in 1982 and received the ASM Albert Sauveur Achievement Award in 1990. Manfred Wuttig, 90, professor emeritus and inaugural chair of the department of materials science and engineering (MSE) at the University of Maryland (UMD) in College Park, passed away on December 31, 2023, in Silver Spring, Maryland. Wuttig was born on April 3, 1933, in Dresden, Germany. He was a physicist, then metallurgist, then materials scientist. He trained at the Technische Hochschule Dresden and Technische Universität Berlin. He began his scientific career at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt and the Gauss Ingenieur Schule, both in Berlin. He then moved to the United States where he was a professor in the department of metallurgy at the University of Missouri-Rolla following postdoctoral work at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He also served as director of the National Science Foundation’s metallurgy program. In 1992, after serving as the director of graduate studies in MSE at UMD, Wuttig became the first acting chair of the MSE department, spending more than 35 years at the university. His scientific contributions impacted the field of smart materials, multiferroics, and shape memory alloys. He rose to prominence in 1998 after publishing one of the first studies on the ferromagnetic shape memory effect, “Magnetostriction of Martensite,” which has been cited over 900 times. Wuttig was named to Stanford University’s List of the World’s Top 2% Scientists in 2021. Beckwith Petzow Wuttig
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