History, scientists and metallurgy (1)

We are starting today in this blog, a series of nostalgic posts on the history of modern metallurgy and its scientists! Please, if you have a photo that you would like to share with us, please don’t hesitate to contact me — matheus.tunes[at]unileoben.ac.at  — and I will be delighted to share with the whole world the good and funny histories from the past. This initiative is of paramount importance to preserve the memory of our current friends and those who already left us to live in another dimensions…

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70 years of computational thermodynamics

This photo of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Inden’ s group, taken at some moment in summer 1997 at the side entrance of the main building of the Max-Planck-Institut fur Eisenforschung pictures many names which were and are important in the field.

First, in the first plane, Prof. Dr. Ryoichi Kikuchi, one of the brightest minds in materials science of the second half of XXth century, then Prof. Dr. Gerhard Inden himself, standing in front of the door. He influenced most of what we do today in thermodynamics of materials. Below him, at his left, Dr. Martin Palm, one of the key names in the development of intermetallic materials to the present, then in the upper part, at the right of the smiling lady, the then young Dr. Andre Schneider, one of the most prominent names in the use of computational thermodynamics in the industry, until recent times the head of the research centre maintained by Vallourec-Mannesmann, finally, in the lower right part opposite to Dr. Martin Palm, someone who one day had hairs and 30 kg less mass!