The Geoffrey Belton memorial symposium foreword
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GEOFFREY R. BELTON
This volume of Metall. Mater. Trans. B. is a tribute to the late Geoffrey R. Belton, who was an internationally recognized and honored scientist and research leader, and a much respected mentor to young scientists and engineers. Born in Rotherham in 1934, Dr. Belton graduated from the University of London, Imperial College in 1960. He subsequently rose to the position of Professor of Chemical Metallurgy at the University of Pennsylvania. His interests in the decarburization of iron, the chemical kinetics of gas/metal and gas/slag reactions, the thermodynamics of metallic alloys, diffusion and surface tension led to seminal, pioneering publications that helped lay the foundations of our fundamental understanding of metallurgical phenomena. In 1979, Dr. Belton became Director of BHP’s Central Research Laboratories in Newcastle, and later served as Chief Scientist for BHP. Under his leadership, BHP Research gained an international reputation for innovative steel research. As a senior executive with BHP, he maintained his active interest in the fundamentals of interfacial reactions and was very influential in the development of metallurgical research and teaching in Australian universities, particularly Newcastle, New South Wales and Wollongong. Dr. Belton received many awards, including the Hunt Medal of AIME, the Howe Memorial Lecturer of the Iron & Steel Society, the Sutherland Medal and Elliott Lectureship for ISS and The Material Society. He was a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, a Fellow of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and a Distinguished Member and Fellow of the ISS. He was a member of the International Advisory Boards of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan, Ironmaking and Steelmaking (The Metals and Materials Society) and Transactions ISS (AIME). Both in academia and during his industrial career, Dr. Belton supervised numerous post-graduate students, many of whom have gone on to become highly successful in their own rights. This was a source of great satisfaction to him, and he continued his supervision and mentoring of young scientists until his death. Dr. Belton passed away in December 1998, after a short illness. He is survived by his wife, Mary, six children and ten grandchildren. He was above all a man of high principles and integrity. For those of us who were lucky enough to work with him, Dr. Belton created a culture which was hungry for fundamental insights based on sound experimental data and which was founded on deep human values. We are all privileged to have enjoyed his personal and professional support. In January 2000, a highly successful Belton Memorial Symposium was held in Sydney, Australia, with invited presentations from his international peers and posters from the younger generation of researchers under his influence. METALLURGICAL AND MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS B
VOLUME 31B, OCTOBER 2000—889
It is a clear reflection of Dr. Belton’s impact that so many of these could be published in this volume of Metallurgical and Mat
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