Newsmakers

Each year the Chicago-based R&D Magazine chooses the 100 most innovative inventions/technologies of the previous year for presentation of its prestigious international R&D 100 Awards. NMT Division registered a record three entries for the competition cycle this year. They are

1. Wendel G. Brown's Minimum-lubricant Asymmetric Motion Lathe (MAC Lathe)

2. Noninvasive Chemical Concentration Analyzer, by Douglas K. Veirs (NMT-6), Noah G. Pope (NMT-2), David Sanchez (NMT-6), and Vicente Sandoval (NMT-6)

3. Hydride-Dehydride Recycle Process, by Bart F. Flamm (NMT-5), Joseph C. Martz (NMT-5), Garland M. Isom (NMT-5), and John M. Haschke (NMT-5) (see details in this issue)

James M. McHale, a graduate research assistant in NMT-6, has completed his Ph.D. dissertation entitled "Solution-based Synthesis of Perovskite-type Oxide Films and Powders." McHale's dissertation was submitted to the Temple University Graduate Board. Nicholas Coppa, NMT-6 Staff Member, served as McHale's advisor for his dissertation work.

The Laboratory-directed research and development (LDRD) STB Office informed the division in early January that a new LDRD/CD proposal, "Polymers for Nuclear Materials Processing," by Gordon Jarvinen (NMT-6) was selected for 1995 funding out of the LDRD reserve.

Barbara Cort (NMT-5) was a featured speaker on Science Career Day at Los Alamos Middle School, January 13, 1995.

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