President Harrison named to GE Board
PRESIDENT Edwin D . Harrison was one of two new members elected to the board of directors of the General Electric Company in January. T h e high honor for Tech and its president was announced by Board Chairman Ralph J. Cordiner on January 30. Cordiner said the election of Dr. Harrison was in keeping with General Electric's policy of maintaining a board with broad experience in many fields of endeavor and with wide geographical representation. The board membership now numbers 17, of which only three are from within the company. Engineering Experiment Station names Whitley DR.
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associate director (research) of Georgia Tech's Engineering Experiment Station has been approved by the Board of Regents of the Georgia University System, according to Dr. Edwin D . Harrison, president of Georgia Tech. Whitley, chief of the Chemical Sciences Division, will assist Robert E. Stiemke, the director, in research administration. The new associate director came to Georgia Tech as an instructor and subsequently served as assistant, associate, and professor of chemistry. Before being named chief of the Chemical Sciences Division at Tech's Engineering Experiment Station in 1956, Whitley was director of several industrial and governmental research projects. For the present he will retain the post as chief of the chemical sciences unit in addition to his new duties. Ireland's U N representative speaks a n campus
T H E HONORABLE Frederick H. Boland, Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations, and immediate past-President of the U.N. General Assembly, addressed the students and faculty of Georgia Tech on Tuesday, February 13. Over 2,800 turned out for his talk on U.N. problems. Former Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Mr. Boland has had a long and varied career in his country's service. H e
formation and growth of interparticle contacts in the solid state). While at Tech, he presented a general discussion of sintering theory and described some of his recent studies in sintering oxides. Born in Cracow, Poland, Doctor Kuczynski escaped to England during World War II, and later came to the United States. He holds a Master of Science degree in mathematics and physics from the University of Cracow; a Bachelor of Science in metallurgy from the University of Swansea (England); and a Doctor of Science degree in metallurgy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. B e f # e assuming his present post at the University of Notre Dame, he served as a research scientist at Sylvania Electric Company, a consultant engineer in Bogota, Colombia, and a metallurgist with NASA. Doctor Kuczynski is the author of numerous publications in the fields of sintering, powder technology, diffusion, surface phenomena, properties of metals and alloys, and order-disorder phenomena. Doctor DeBenedetti spent his time at Tech conducting seminars and conferences with the faculty and students. On February 20, at 8:00 p.m., he gave a lecture on the subject, "Positron Annihilation in Solids," and on the following afternoon, at 3:30 p.m. he conducted a special seminar on "Mossbauer Effect in Paramagnetic Ions." Particularly well known to physicists for his personal enthusiasm and physical insight, Doctor DeBenedetti has been active in research in the field of cosmic rays, low energy nuclear physics, particle physics, and high energy physics. Special accomplishments are the discovery of short-lived insomers; studies of positronium, mesic Xrays, and mossbauer effect. Born and educated in Florence, Italy, Doctor DeBenedetti has served on the faculty of the University of Padua, Italy; Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio; and Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. In addition, he has engaged in research for Laboratoire Curie, Paris, Frances; Bartol Research Foundation, Swarthmore, Pa.;
entered the Irish Foreign Service as Third Secretary in 1929, and was appointed First Secretary at the Paris Legation in 1932. He has served as Head of the Foreign Trade Division in the Department of Industry and Commerce, and Permanent Secretary of the Department of External Affairs. Ambassador Boland has represented Ireland as a delegate to various political and economic conferences and negotiations including: the League of Nations; the Commonwealth Economic Conference at Ottawa in 1932; the Conference on European Economic Co-operation, Paris, 1947; First Session of OEEC, Paris, 1948; and Conference on the Council of Europe, London, 1949. He served as Member and Acting Chairman of the Irish delegation to the Xlth, Xllth, XHIth, and XlVth sessions of the U.N. General Assembly, and as President of the Assembly in 1960. Ambassador Boland studied law at King's Inn and Trinity College, Dublin, and holds an LL.B. degree. In 1926, he was awarded a Rockefeller Research Fellowship in Social Sciences. He has studied at Harvard University, and at the Universities of Chicago and North Carolina. Ambassador Boland's appearance was sponsored by the Georgia Tech Student Lecture and Entertainment Committee. Two
top scientists visit Tech
D R . G. C. KUCZYNSKI, of the Department of
Metallurgy, University of Notre Dame, visited the campus on January 29, and D r . Sergio DeBenedetti, internationally-known physicist from Carnegie Institute of Technology visited Tech on February 20 and 2 1 . They were the second and third of the 1961-62 series of top scientists or engineers to be brought to the Georgia Tech campus through the Neely Visiting Professorship Fund, established by Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Neely of Atlanta. Considered an international authority in the field of the physics of powder metallurgy, Doctor Kuczynski is credited with the generally accepted theory for the mechanisms of the first state of sintering (the
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