Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Born: March 5, 1927, Boonville, Indiana USA

Married June 26, 1948

Ph.B. (1949), M.S. (1951), Ph.D. (Physics, 1955)

University of Chicago

WESTINGHOUSE RESEARCH LABORATORIES

Research Physicist (1955 - 1959)

Advisory Physicist (1959 - 1960)

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

Adjunct Professor (1956 - 1960)

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

Associate Professor of Metallurgical Engineering (1960 - 1963)

Professor of Metallurgical Engineering (1963- )

Head, Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science (1963 -1966)

Dean of Carnegie Institute of Technology (1966 - 1970)

Professor of Applied Science (1970 - 1985 )

Director, Center for the Joining of Materials (1982 - 1985)

University Professor of Applied Science (1985 -1992 )

Emeritus University Professor of Applied Science (1992-)

The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society

American Physical Society

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Tau Beta Pi

Sigma Xi

National Academy of Sciences

Guggenheim Fellowship and Fulbright Grant, University of Paris (1961- 1962)

Mathewson Gold Medal, A. I. M. E. (1963)

Philip M. McKenna Memorial Award (1981)

Elected to the National Academy of Sciences (1984)

Appointed University Professor of Applied Science (1985)

Professional Achievement Citation, University of Chicago Alumni Assn. (1990)

Humboldt Research Award (1992)

Institute of Metals Lecturer of the TMS-AIME and Robert Franklin Mehl Award (1994)

Fellow of The Metallurgical Society (1995)

Von Hippel Award of the Materials Research Society (1995)

The Cyril Stanley Smith Award of the International Conference on Grain Growth (1998)

Kinematics and Dynamics of Grain Boundary Motion

Kinetics of Topographical Changes in Solid Surfaces

Phase Transformations, especially Morphological Stability Theory

Stochastic Modeling: Atomic Diffusion, Particulate Rheology, Lunar Cratering Mass and Energy Transport in Crystals and on Interfaces

Thermodynamics of Solids with Stress

Coarsening Processes, Domain and Grain Growth

Electromigration

Step Structure of Solid Surfaces