Biography of Hubert I. Aaronson
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Hubert I. Aaronson was bom in New York City on July 10, 1924, to Ida and Robert B. Aaronson. He grew up in Brooklyn and graduated from Lincoln High School in Jersey City in 1941. In 1943, he joined the Army Air Force and was trained as a bombardier. During the latter part of World War II, he flew 13 missions in B-17 bombers from an air base near Foggia, Italy, over Germany, Austria, and Hungary. After his discharge from the Army, Hubert Aaronson returned to the Camegie Institute of Technology (later Carnegie Mellon University), where he earned B.S. (1948) and Ph.D. (1954) degrees in Metallurgical Engineering. At the time of his studies, the metallurgy department was under the considerable influence of R.F. Mehl, and it was in the fertile research environment created by Professor Mehl that Hubert developed his career-long interest in physical metallurgy. Hubert's doctoral research, under the guidance of Cyril Wells, was concerned with the proeutectoid ferrite and the bainite transformations in steels. The thoroughness of his work is evidenced by the two rather large volumes that comprise his dissertation. He remained at Carnegie Tech as a research metallurgist in the Metals Research Laboratory until early in 1958. During these postdoctoral years, he extended his studies on steels to titanium-base alloys. He then joined the Scientific Research Laboratory of the Ford Motor Company in Dearbom, Michigan, where he stayed for 14 years. At Ford, he continued his investigations of transformations in steels and nonferrous alloys. During this period, he and Victor F. Zackay organized the symposium on the "Decomposition of Austenite by Diffusional Processes," widely regarded as a landmark in the field. He also organized the 1968 ASM Seminar on "Phase Transformations," from which papers remain active in the literature. Dr. Aaronson moved to academia in 1972. After a few months as senior visiting fellow at the University of Manchester, where he worked with Gordon W. Lorimer on transmission electron microscopy studies, he joined the faculty of the Michigan Technological University. There he launched programs on nucleation and growth kinetics and on the massive and bainite transformations with support from the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Army Research Office. He also became deeply interested in undergraduate and graduate education. He is especially recognized for his graduate courses in phase transformations and for organizing the book, Lectures in the Theory of Phase Transformations, a second edition of which is forthcoming. This book, together with Professor Aaronson's personal lecture notes, is widely used in many graduate programs throughout the world. In 1979, Dr. Aaronson returned to Carnegie Mellon University as R.F. Mehl Professor of Metallurgy and Materials Science. Shortly thereafter, he and Professors D.E. Laughlin, R.F. Sekerka, and C.M. Wayman (University of Illinois) organized the first of what has become a highly successful series of international conferences on
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