Word: metallurgists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ninth chancellor, Clifford Furnas, 53, will rule over a $25 million plant and a substantial ($4 million) budget. But since enrollments are expected to go up another 60%, he will have to keep his campus expanding. He seems to combine the necessary talents. A top metallurgist and a former professor of chemical engineering at Yale, he is also an able administrator who has seen his laboratory staff grow from 50 to 450. But his greatest asset will probably be his adopted city...
...years, titanium dioxide (a powder) has been used in paint, while metallurgists sought to smelt it into a metal. It was not until 1946 that William Kroll, a metallurgist for the Bureau of Mines, managed to produce small grey spongelike globs of metal which could be cast into ingots. The Bureau sent a memo on titanium to Colonel John Dick, 49, chief of the Materials and Components Division of the Air Force Industrial Resources Directorate, "who became a one-man publicity bureau for the metal, began plugging it to the armed services...
...years." Ford often rewarded Bennett and others with unexpected gifts (new homes, new cars, refrigerators), but often took the gifts away. "Never," he explained to Bennett, "give anything without strings attached to it." But Ford sought his executives within the plant: when an engineer told him he needed a metallurgist, Ford pointed to a man sweeping the floor and said: "Make one out of that fellow." (The sweeper became a good metallurgist...
Last week, 40 years later, Chemist-Metallurgist Langmuir announced his retirement as associate director of G.E.'s famed lab. Among his achievements he could count a 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (the first won by a U.S. industrial chemist), awards and honors from many top-drawer scientific organizations, an impressive list of discoveries, and international renown...