A Tribute to professor guy marshall pound
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I N opening the Guy Marshall Pound Symposium on the Kinetics of Phase Transformations, I act as the voice for his many colleagues, students, and friends in honoring him. Marsh Pound was truly "a man for all seasons," with lasting contributions to the materials field through his theoretical work on thermodynamics and the kinetics of phase transformations and through his formal and informal influence in training materials scientists. Professor Pound died on May 18, 1988, at the age of 68 at his home in Crescent City, CA. He had taken a medical retirement in 1980 but remained active in conversations, collaborations, and correspondence throughout the 1980s. He is survived by his wife Barbara and his five children. He was bom near The Dalles, OR, and received his early education there. He later attended Reed College (Portland, OR) and received his B.S. degree in Chemistry in 1941. Subsequently, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA), completing a M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering in 1944. After a short period in industry, 1944-46, with the California Research Corporation (San Francisco, CA), he completed his graduate training with a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Columbia University (New York, NY) in 1949. Professor Victor K. LaMer was his thesis advisor. His thesis work on liquid-solid nucleation in sequestered tin droplets remains a classic in the nucleation field. Along with D. Tumbull, who had performed similar work with mercury, the droplet work brought the formalism of nucleation theory, developed in the disciplines of chemistry and physics to explain cloud chamber and precipitation kinetics, into metallurgy and, subsequently, materials science. Also, in parallel with D. Turnbull, J.H. Holloman, and his fellow graduate student, Howard Reiss, he established the theoretical foundations for the theory of nucleation in condensed phases. In 1949, he was hired as an Assistant Professor of Metallurgical Engineering at Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT) (now Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA) by Robert Franklin Mehl. He introduced advanced courses on thermodynamics and kinetics, bringing the formalisms of chemistry into the field of metallurgy and providing the basis for the modem treatment of these subjects, and developed a research proJOHN P. HIRTH, Professor, is with the Mechanical and Materials Engineering and Physics Departments, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-2920. This paper is based on a presentation made in the "G. Marshall Pound Memorial Symposium on the Kinetics of Phase Transformations" presented as part of the 1990 fall meeting of TMS, October 8-12, 1990, in Detroit, MI, under the auspices of the ASM/MSD Phase Transformations Committee. METALLURGICAL TRANSACTIONS A
gram with the Office of Naval Research (Arlington, VA) in these areas. He provided the theoretical impetus and resource during a remarkable period of activity in the phase transformations field over the next 15 years that resulted in a group at CIT that assumed a world leadership posi
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