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GARETH THOMAS
GARETH THOMAS
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In 1958 Gareth married Elizabeth Cawdry and soon after moved to the United States, working briefly for a time in consulting roles for the aluminum industry, then, in 1960, accepting appointment as a visiting assistant professor of metallurgy at the University of California, Berkeley. As he would later tell his colleagues, "it was easy to plant roots in Berkeley." He took a special liking to the Bay Area, immersing himself in 331
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Teaming with colleagues locally and from around the world, he worked diligently to establish the relationship between the internal structure of materials and their properties, bringing new understanding of engineering performance and how it might be optimized. He trained scores of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in the nuances of electron microscopy, published a widely used textbook on the subject, and continued to grow his collection of electron microscopes beyond the confines of his campus space.
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He also served a year at the helm of the Technology Transfer Centre at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Kowloon (1993) and as chief technology officer of the specialty alloy company MMFX® Steels, which licensed one of Gareth's patents for high-strength corrosionresistant ferrous steels.
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