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Leveraging Federal Research and Development for United States Science and Technology

SIEGFRIED S. HECKER Director

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I am deeply honored and privileged to present the 1989 lecture in Materials and Society and join the distinguished list of lecturers who have preceded me. I had some difficulty deciding what to talk about this m o r n i n g - - w h e t h e r to give a societal talk or a technical talk. So I decided to do both. M y first inclination was to talk about the importance of materials and the challenges we face. However, this has been the theme of the Materials Science and Engineering Study sponsored by the National Academy in Washington, DC. t~] I recommend the report as a must on your reading list.

SIEGFRIED S. HECKER is Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, a position he has held since January 1986. Joining the Los Alamos National Laboratory as a technical staff member in the Physical Metallurgy Group in 1973, he has served as Chairman of the Center for Materials Science and Division Leader of the Materials Science and Technology Division before becoming Director. Dr. Hecker began his professional career as a senior research metallurgist with the General Motors Research Laboratories in 1970 after two years as a postdoctoral appointee at Los Alamos. Dr. Hecker received his B.S. in Metallurgy in 1965, his M.S. in Metallurgy in 1967, and his Ph.D. in Metallurgy in 1968, all from Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Hecker is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Society METALLURGICAL TRANSACTIONS B

for Metals (1983). He has been awarded the AIME James O. Douglas Gold Medal Award (1990); the Kent Van Horn Distinguished Alumnus Award, Case Western Reserve University (1989); the Department of Energy's E.O. Lawrence Award for Materials Science (1984); a Science Digest, The Year's Top 100 Innovations award (1985); the American Society for Metals, Marcus A. Grossman Young Author Award (1976); the Wesley P. Sykes Outstanding Metallurgist Award, Case Institute of Technology (1965); and the John Huntington Scholarship (19611965). He is a member of the Tau Beta Pi Honorary Engineering Fraternity, Alpha Sigma Mu Honorary Metallurgical Fraternity, and the Society of Sigma Xi. Dr. Hecker is a member of the National Commission on Superconductivity. He currently serves on the Board of Directors, Council on Superconductivity for American Competitiveness; the Board of Regents, University of New Mexico; the Board of the Carrie Tingley Hospital, Albuquerque, NM; the Board of Directors, Rio Grande Technology Foundation; the Board of Directors, New Mexico Technet, Inc.; the Governor's Technical Excellence Committee, State of New Mexico; and the Board of Advisors, Santa Fe Institute. Dr. Hecker is a member of ASM INTERNATIONAL and TMS, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, having served in numerous local and national positions. He has served as Honorary Chairman, Los Alamos Area United Way Campaign (1989), and as member and President of the Lo