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Robert Alfred Laudise
Robert Alfred Laudise
Pages 136-149
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Electronic and communications technology today is at a level unimaginable in Bob's youth, and much of that technology resulted from the science he did himself or championed as a Bell Labs manager and as a leader in the scientific community. Bob was born and raised in the small town of Amsterdam, New York, the only child of parents who were both teachers in the public schools.1 His parents encouraged his intellectual pursuits and as a child he was a voracious reader of all subjects.
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Laudise spent his entire scientific career at Bell Labs. He was a member of the technical staff from 1956 to 1970, head of the Crystal Chemistry Research Department from 1970 to 1978, assistant director and director of the Materials Research Laboratory from 1972 to 1978, director of the Materials and Processing Research Laboratory from 1978 to 1992, and adjunct chemical director from 1992 to 1998.
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He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980 and the National Academy of Sciences in 1991, as well as the American Philosophical Society in 1997 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the following year. He received numerous prizes and awards for his work, including the Orton Lecture Prize of the American Ceramic Society, the Sawyer Prize for contributions to piezoelectricity, the Applications to Practice Award of the Materials, Metals and Minerals Society, and the Materials Chemistry Prize of the American Chemical Society.
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He served in advisory roles to several national laboratories, universities, and National Research Council committees, including a term as chair of the National Materials Advisory Board. Bob worked aggressively to foster cooperation among the different professional societies to positively influence government action related to the research and development of materials.
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Bob and Joyce's mutual interest in the environment and lake ecology blossomed at Twin Lakes, as they became concerned that many Pocono lakes were being damaged by acid rain and that alga blooms appeared with greater frequency. Beginning in 1987 they were a team of two collecting lake samples, sending them off to a laboratory for analysis, and writing annual reports on the quality of the lake.
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He was anything but a "by the book" manager. He believed in shielding the troops as much as possible from constantly changing business pressures coming down from the top, but he had his nose to the internal political winds and
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During much of the 1980s and early 1990s the group of department heads that reported to Bob (including myself) got pretty familiar with one another and Bob's performance review style, which was more intense, franker, fairer, and more time consuming than I experienced with any of my other bosses.
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the department heads presented Bob with their own jocular review of his performance, which rendered him uncharacteristically speechless and embarrassed. At the conclusion of another equally intense review, Bob closed his notebook and said words to the effect of "I have prostate cancer and will be operated on next week, and I want each of you to go get a PSA test if you haven't had one recently." I sat stunned at how he showed no hint of what was facing him through that entire week.
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1970. The Growth of Single Crystals.
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Use of hollow cathode DC plasma discharge float zoning for the growth of materials with high melting points: The growth of single crystals of Ta2C.
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The dependence of modified chemical vapor deposition process (MCVD) equilibria on SiCl4, GeCl4 and O2 concentrations as determined by the element potential method.
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Highly textured and single crystal Bi2CaSr2Cu2Ox prepared by laser heated float zone crystallization.
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