Tadeusz Bronislaw Massalski
Metallurgical engineer, educator
Born Jun. 29, 1926, Warsaw, Poland; came to U.S., 1959; son of Piotr and Stanislawa (Andrukaniec); married Sheila (Harris); children: Irena, Peter, Christopher.
Education: Bachelor of Science (B.S.), 1952, Ph.D., 1954, Doctor of Science (D.Sc.), 1964, University of Birmingham (United Kingdom); postdoctoral fellowship, University of Chicago (IL), 1954-56; Doctor honoris causa, Warsaw Technical University, 1973.
Career: lecturer, Birmingham University, 1956-59; head, Metal Physics Group, 1959-75, staff fellow, 1961-72, prof., 1966-75, Melon Institute of Science, Pittsburgh (PA); prof., Carnegie-Melon University, Pittsburgh, 1968 -; visiting prof., University of Buenos Aires (Arg.), 1962, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1962, Stanford University (CA), 1963, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), 1964,1966, Oxford University, 1965-66, Institute of Physics, Bariloche (Argentina), 1966, 1970, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA), 1969; exchange prof., Jagiellonian University, Cracow (Poland), 1968; NASVEA prof., Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey (CA); consultant, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), 1965 -, National Institute of Standards and Technology Washington (DC), 1979 -, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1980-85.
Author: co-author, Structure of Metals, 3 editions, last 1966; Advanced Physical Metallurgy, 1965; co-editor, Progress in Materials Science, 1969 -; editor-in-chief, ASM/NBS Phase Diagram Program, 1980 -; numerous papers and articles on alloy theory, crystallography, metal physics meteorites.
Member of: fellow, British Institute of Metallurgists, British Institute of Physics, American Society of Metals, American Physical Society; Polish Academy of Science (Poland); German Academy of Science; Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (P.I.A.S.A.)
Honors, i.a.: Sigma Xi; Hume-Rhotery Award, 1980, and prize, 1989, American Institute of Mechanical Engineers; Yamaha Foundation award (Japan), 1981; A. von Humboldt Foundation award (Germany), 1991; listed in: Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, World Men of Science, American Men of Science, American Men in Engineering.
Languages: Polish, English, Italian, German.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation,
New York, NY, 1996