Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
scientists, Drs.
Richard Fonda and Dr. George Spanos, are recipients
of the 2001
Marcus A. Grossman Young Author Award for their paper
published
in the September 2000 issue of Metallurgical and
Materials
TransactionsA. Drs. Fonda and Spanos work
in the
Physical Metallurgy Branch of NRL's Materials Science
and
Technology Division. The award was presented at the Annual
Awards Dinner of ASM International, last November in Indianapolis.
Their paper is entitled, "Microstructural Evolution in
Ultra-Low-Carbon Steel Weldments- Part I: Controlled Thermal
Cycling and Continuous Cooling Transformation Diagram of the
Weld Metal."
The Marcus A. Grossman Young Author
Award was established in
1960 in memory of an eminent
metallurgist, research director
and author, who was President
of ASM in 1944, to honor the author
(or authors) under 40 years
of age whose paper has been selected
as the best of those
published in a given year in (i.e. for a
specific volume of)
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions.
Dr. Fonda
came to NRL as an ASEE postdoctoral fellow, and was
later hired
by NRL as a physical metallurgist in 1995 in the
Joining and
Transformations Section. He is currently studying
steel
weldments, phase transformations in steels, aluminum friction
stir welds, and other alloys of interest to the U.S. Navy. He
is the author or co-author of more than 40 publications and more
than 40 presentations.
Dr. Spanos is section head of
NRL's Joining and Transformations
Section. Dr. Spanos is a key
reader and has been a member of
the joint commission of
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions,
and is a member of
TMS and ASM. In 1989 he joined the Physical
Metallurgy Branch
of the Naval Research Laboratory as a staff
scientist. His
research interests include the study of the kinetics,
thermodynamics, morphological evolution and overall mechanisms
of solid-state phase transformations, and investigation of
processing-microstructure-property
relationships developed
during the joining of materials. Dr.
Spanos is the author of
more than 50 technical publications in
these research
areas.
Dr. Fonda received a B.S. degree in geology and
chemistry from
Juniata College in 1983, then went to Cornell
University where
he received a M.S. in chemistry in 1986. He
was awarded a Ph.D.
in 1991 from the Materials Science
Department at the University
of Virginia for his work revealing
the important role of crystallography
in the cellular
precipitation reaction. Dr. Spanos received
his B.S., M.E.,
and Ph.D. degrees in Metallurgical Engineering
and Materials
Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
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