Word: metallurgist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure, Abdul Qadar Khan did seem a bit inquisitive to his fellow scientists at The Netherlands' top-secret gas centrifuge factory at Almelo, where enriched uranium is produced for nuclear plants around the world. On the other hand, asking questions was normal behavior for a bright young metallurgist who wanted to get ahead. After 17 days at the plant, however, Khan was politely but firmly told to leave Almelo, and went back to work in his Amsterdam laboratory. Shortly afterward, he told friends that he had been asked to return to his native Pakistan and serve in the Economic...
Just after World War II, admirals had been nervous about the stocky ingotsize metallurgist from Penn State who badgered them to scrap their old anti-aircraft guns and start developing surface-to-air missiles. Byrom won that round-and he won the Navy's Distinguished Civilian Service Award A few years later, by-the-book bosses at Koppers Co. fumed when they learned that their young executive disobeyed orders and put in a costly distillation process. When it proved enormously profitable, they hailed...
...Science, Schmidt and Metallurgy Professor Donald Avery, both of Brown University, report that as long as 2,000 years ago, the Haya people were producing medium-carbon steel in preheated, forced-draft furnaces. A technology this sophisticated was not developed again until nearly 19 centuries later, when German-born Metallurgist Karl Wilhelm Siemens, who is generally credited with using an open-hearth furnace, produced the first high-grade carbon steel...
...British journalist in Germany who has lost all his money in a poker game. He takes a train to Vienna to borrow some from a man he knows there. But on the train he shares a compartment with a man who eats sausage and claims to be a Jewish metallurgist fleeing the country from the Nazis, while there's still time. He has the correct papers, but the authorities will not let him take his money with him. Kenton is offered three hundred marks to take the "securities" across the border. He accepts, the papers turn out to be something...
Died. Dr. Paul Schwarzkopf, 84, noted Austrian metallurgist who fled to the U.S. after the 1938 Anschluss and later aided the Allied war effort; in Reutte, Austria. A pioneer in powder metallurgy (a method of producing metal parts without melting the components), Schwarzkopf developed techniques that allowed the U.S. to overcome a shortage of pure iron during World War II and produce millions of parts for field telephones and similar instruments. Among his other discoveries was tungsten carbide, a substance so hard that it has all but displaced diamonds as drill bits...