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JOSEPH A. PASK
Pages 220-225

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... Subsequently, he obtained valuable industrial experience and a reputation for research achievement as a research ceramist and research section engineer in the Lamp Division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation, in Bloomfield, New Jersey, which led 221
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... He helped organize and served on numerous National Research Council committees and panels on ceramic processing, particularly emphasizing the need for research directed at producing more reliable ceramic bodies. Early on, with several of his graduate students, he made significant contributions to clay mineralogy and the behavior of clay suspensions with regard to ceramics.
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... In addition to election to the National Academy of Engineering, Joe Pask was an honorary member of the Ceramic Society of Japan, a charter member of the International Academy of Ceramics, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The awards that he probably treasured most were the Berkeley Citation awarded at his retirement and the Distinguished Life Membership and the Jeppson Award of the American Ceramic Society.
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... In addition to the American Ceramic Society, he was exceptionally active in other professional societies and on National Research Council committees and panels related to ceramic materials. He was not only a member of the ceramic society of several different foreign countries but also a member of the American Mineralogical Society, the Clay Minerals Society, and the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, among others.
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