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Stanley Backer
Pages 22-29

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... Upon graduation, Stan joined the military, where his supervisors soon recognized his talents and appointed him technical officer in the Materials Section of the U.S. Quartermaster Corps (QMC)
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... He was one of a select group of individuals from around the world dedicated to raising the craft of textiles to the science of textiles and fibrous materials. The members of this group considered fibers engineering materials and textiles engineered structures.
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... This has led to a metal-like ductile ECC material recently recognized in Popular Mechanics and Architectural Records. ECC is now in earthquake resistant buildings and durable bridge decks." Stan was one of the first to recognize the interdisciplinary nature of the problems in textiles.
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... Paraphrasing Sam Winchester of DuPont, when Stan was "given a description of product-performance or a processing problem, he immediately began defining a plausible model. If given additional facts that called into question the assumption of the model, he easily formulated a revised model to achieve the same goal." As Peter Popper described him, "Stan helped formulate and execute literally hundreds of research programs related to new fibers, spunbond fabrics, composites, specialty materials, and innovative processes.
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... Quartermaster Advisory Board, Committee on Textile Fabrics (1957-1966) , chair of the NRC ad hoc Textile Research Committee (1961-1962)
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... For his scholarly publications and lectures and his public service he received numerous honors and awards: Harold DeWitt Smith Medal; ASTM D-13 (1962) ; first Academic Fiber Society Lecturer (19641965)
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