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Mr. Rare Earth Aims to Retire

with Ametek Inc. for seven years and worked at Hoeganaes Corp. for 25 years before that. Paranthaman Named AAAS Fellow

Karl A. Gschneidner Jr., FASM, will formally retire effective January 5 after a dis- tinguished career that led him to become internationally rec- ognized as “Mr. Rare Earth.” Gschneidner, who turned 85 in November, has dedicated his career to the study of rare earth metals. He is a distin- guished professor of materials science and engineering at

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recently named Mariappan Parans Paranthaman, FASM, of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), as a new fellow. Parantha- man is a distinguished research staff member and leader of the materials chemistry group of ORNL’s Chemical Sciences Divi-

Iowa State University, a senior metallurgist at the Ames Labo- ratory, and chief scientist of the Critical Materials Institute. Although Gschneidner will officially retire, he will keep the same office he has had since 1963 and will stay involved in research. “The biggest difference in being retired will be that I don’t have to be here for meetings! I can just concentrate on the research,” he says.

sion, and also serves on the faculty for the University of Ten- nessee’s Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education. He is cited by the AAAS “for distin- guished contributions to the field of chemistry, including materials for superconductors, solar cells, lithium ion bat- teries, and processing of magnetic materials.” Paranthaman will be honored at the AAAS annual meeting in February.

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Kempton H. Roll, FASM, founding executive director of the Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF), died on November 4, 2015, at age 92. He attended Carnegie Institute of Technology and graduated from Yale University in 1945 with a degree in metallurgical engineering and served in the

Morris E. Fine, FASM, the Wal- ter P. Murphy Professor Emeri- tus of Materials Science and Engineering and the Techno- logical Institute Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwest- ern University, passed away on September 30, 2015, at age 97. He received his Ph.D. in metal-

Pacific during WWII as a bomb disposal officer with the U.S. Navy. He earned a master’s degree from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1953. Well known in the national and international metalworking communities, Roll retired in 1988 after a 40-year career. He joined the Lead Industries Association in 1948 as technical director with responsibilities for the former Metal Powder Association (MPA), forerunner of MPIF. He was named executive director of MPA in 1956 and helped found MPIF in 1957 as the umbrella organization representing different sectors of the metal powder producing and consuming indus- tries. Roll was a member of ASM since 1946.

lurgy from the University of Minnesota in 1943 and was a member of Northwestern’s faculty since 1954. Along with colleague Don Whitmore, Fine co-created the Uni- versity’s department of metallurgy in 1955 and became its first chair. In 1958, the world’s first department of materials science was born. Fine came to Northwestern with a range of experiences that included work with the Manhattan Project in Chicago and Los Alamos and later with Bell Labs in New Jersey. Although he retired from Northwestern in 1988, he continued to be an active member of the community until his final days. Fine enjoyed an extensive list of honors throughout his career, including the ASM Gold Medal in 1986.