HIGHLIGHTS ADVANCED MATERIALS & PROCESSES | MAY/JUNE 2024 61 IN MEMORIAM IN MEMORIAM David Lewis Burgess, 83, of Santa Clara, California, passed away on March 31. He graduated from Edward Little High School in Auburn, Maine, and received further education at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, San Jose State College, and Stanford University. His first job was at Lockheed Missiles & Space Company. During his 60-year semiconductor career, Burgess was employed at several major companies, most notably Fairchild Semiconductor and Hewlett-Packard Company where he was the corporate reliability physicist. In later years, he taught seminars in semiconductor failure analysis worldwide. This led him to form a small company, Accelerated Analysis, which provided specialty tools and chemicals for use in semiconductor failure analysis. Burgess was a senior life member of IEEE and a life member of both EOS/ESD and ASM International. He was also an active member of ASM’s Electronic Device Failure Analysis Society (EDFAS) and a longtime attendee of ISTFA, accompanied by his wife Marion. Burgess received the 2023 EDFAS President’s Award in honor of his dedication and exceptional service to the failure analysis community. He held two patents related to failure analysis of semiconductor devices, wrote and contributed to several books, and presented papers at the International Reliability Physics Symposium, where he served as chairman in 1983. Burgess wrote extensively over the years for EDFA magazine, including championing the Master FA Techniques department and serving as associate editor from 2016 to 2023. Pierre Léon Fauchais, FASM, TSS-HoF, professor emeritus at the University of Limoges, France, passed away on March 26 at the age of 86. He was born in Neuilly/Seine in 1937. Fauchais earned an engineering degree in aeronautics and a master’s degree in physics in 1961 from the University of Poitiers. In 1963, he obtained a Ph.D. in mechanics and aeronautics, followed by his doctoral thesis in 1968. He joined the University of Limoges as an assistant professor and was promoted to professor in 1973 and exceptional professor in 1988. At age 36, he was elected president of the university and served as vice president of the Conference of French University Presidents from 1975 to 1976. From 1975 to 1984, he co-directed a research team at CNRS that laid the foundation for today’s IRCER laboratory. Additionally, he worked on clean technologies for the French Ministry of Environment from 1982 to 1984. Fauchais devoted his career to researching thermal plasmas, resulting in approximately 400 papers published in top scientific journals, nine book chapters, 280 peer-reviewed international conference papers, 430 international conference papers, and eight patents. He presented 52 plenary lectures and 82 thematic lectures at international meetings. At the University of Limoges, he supervised over 100 doctoral students. He co-authored the books Thermal Plasmas: Fundamentals and Applications, Thermal Spray Fundamentals, and the Handbook of Thermal Plasmas. In addition to being named to the TSS Hall of Fame, he received the International Plasma Chemistry Society Award for lifetime achievement in plasma chemistry. Richard Benson Gundlach, FASM, of Farmington, Michigan, passed away on April 16 at age 78. He was born on November 9, 1945, in Buffalo, New York. Gundlach attended Grosse Pointe High School, Michigan Technological University, and the University of Michigan. His metallurgical engineering career began at Climax Molybdenum Company in Ann Arbor, where he became a researcher, technical writer, lecturer, and problem solver. In 1987, Gundlach and his partners opened Climax Research Services, in Farmington Hills, Michigan. He sold the company in 2008 but continued to be affiliated with it. Gundlach enjoyed conveying concepts of ferrous metallurgy to his customers, employees, and co-op students. In addition to being an active member and Fellow of ASM International, he was also a member of the ASM Detroit Chapter, the American Foundry Society, and the Ductile Iron Society. He published over 70 technical papers, received two U.S. patents, earned numerous accolades and awards, and mentored dozens of young people. Fauchais Burgess Gundlach
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