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REINHARDT SCHUHMANN JR.
REINHARDT SCHUHMANN JR.
Pages 274-281
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Because of financial difficulties due to the Depression, the mine soon closed and he then enrolled at the Montana School of Mines in Butte to pursue a graduate degree. In those years, Butte was the world center of copper mining and his time there spawned his lifelong interest in copper production metallurgy.
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Upon the retirement of Process Metallurgy Professor Carl Hayward, Schuhmann moved into that area, expanding his research interests to include thermodynamics of high-temperature processes for metal extraction and phase equilibria in multicomponent, multiphase systems. He wrote major papers on the thermodynamics of copper smelting and iron-silicate slags
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Shu was a teacher par excellence, a researcher of enviable insight and inquiry, and an engineer with incredible capacity to translate his insights into industrial applications. He was a teacher of teachers in classical thermodynamics; he inspired students to seek solutions to problems by seeking the right information, by framing the right questions, and by applying the appropriate scientific laws and engineering principles.
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. He was very active in many professional societies including TMS and the Iron and Steel Society of AIME, ASM, the American Society for Engineering Education, the American Chemical Society, and Sigma Xi; and he held numerous committee chairmanships.
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In 1988 a research laboratory in the School of Materials Engineering was named the Reinhardt Schuhmann Jr. Laboratory to honor the founding head of the school for all his contributions over the years.
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Shu was a loving family man with two daughters, Martha and Alice, and three grandchildren. He considered his wife, Betsy Hancock Schuhmann, whom he married in 1937, as the one who inspired him and kept him in line, as she was quite involved in reading, studying, and discussing politics.
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