HIGHLIGHTS ADVANCED MATERIALS & PROCESSES | NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2024 45 IN MEMORIAM Bruce F. Antolovich, recipient of the 2023 Henry Marion Howe Medal, passed away from cancer in July. He was a 1993 graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology and the third generation in his paternal family involved in metal working. Through this familial connection, he developed a deep affinity for the aerospace industry, starting with radio-controlled aircraft. His internship at Boeing Vertol in Philadelphia resulted in his general aviation pilot’s licenses from both the FAA (U.S.) and the CAA (France). His early career focused on fracture and failure analysis working with his father’s firm, Metallurgical Research Consultants, followed by postdoctoral studies at Institut de Recherches de Sidérurgie (France), and then work as manager of numeric process modeling at Special Metals Corp. (New York). At Eramet (France), he held several positions with increasing responsibility including as head of pyrometallurgy for Eramet Research. After returning to the U.S. in 2017, Antolovich took a research position as an Associate Technical Fellow at ATI Specialty Materials (North Carolina) where he led R&D programs to develop improved thermomechanical processes for titanium, niobium, and nickel superalloys. Antolovich was passionate about continuing the education of young engineers and expanding the field of metallurgy. He mentored doctoral students as the industrial co-chair for the Center for Advanced Non-Ferrous Structural Alloys (CANFSA) Research Consortium, as well as many junior engineers within Eramet and ATI. The family encourages donations to the ASM Materials Education Foundation in Antolovich’s name to honor his passion. Henry Johan Rack, FASM, professor emeritus of materials science and engineering at Clemson University, passed away on September 11 at the age of 81. He resided in Pendleton, South Carolina. Born on November 1, 1942, in New York City, he was the son of Henry and Maria Scharpf Rack. Dr. Rack received his B.S., M.S., and Sc.D. in metallurgy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and joined Clemson in 1985 after a distinguished career at Lockheed-Georgia, Sandia National Laboratories, Exxon, and ARCO Metals. An esteemed scholar, Rack was an ASM Fellow and served on the National Materials Advisory Board. He held a Humboldt Stiftung in Metal Physics and authored the influential book Structural Biomaterials for the 21st Century. His innovative work led to the invention of several advanced materials and processes used in the transportation and medical device industries. Antolovich IN MEMORIAM Rack
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