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Arthur M. Bueche
Arthur M. Bueche
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He recognized that he could not do his full job as a leacler of industrial technology without also fostering the strong roles of partners in the "triangle." For example, one of his major efforts during the year prior to his sullen death from a heart attack on October 22, 1981, was as key technical adviser to President-elect Reagan during the pre-inaugural transition perioc! of late 1980 and early 1981.
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His associates in chemistry suggested it was like "beaker," without the r, and a favorite inhouse couplet made note of his role as GE's fourth research director: Like Archimedes, shout 'Eureka'Whitney, Coolidge, Suits, and Bucche.
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This interest survived and grew, even though his first major research effort investigating the possibility that radioactive suIphur might have been produced in a large quantity of sodium chloride that had been stored for some years near the University's cyclotron was, in his words, "a rather complete failure." After nine months at Ohio State, the opportunity came for graduate work at Cornell University, which had been his original first choice. "Besides," he wrote, "Cornell paid slightly more." In some sketchy autobiographical notes written many years later, Art said, "At Cornell ~ shopped around for a thesis adviser and found many fine possibilities.
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Marshall, who header! GE's chemistry research, was a crusty, driving, entrepreneurial leacler whose forceful nature had played a key part in getting General Electric started down the road of manufacturing polymer products for applications other than electrical insulation.
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in 1961, C Guy Suits, GE's research director, recognized Bucche as the obvious choice to head the Chemistry Research Department, which by that time was cleeply involved in clevelopments that would lead to General Electric's remarkable success in the engineering plastics business.
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The former Acivanced Technology Laboratories, earlier callecI the General Engineering Laboratory, was an institution that had sufferer! a variety of ups and downs because of its broad dependence on contracts for support, a place where short-range results were the principal priority, and an organization sometimes looked on as a "poor cousin," occupying quarters in the Schenectacly Main Plant that were a far cry from the glamorous surroundings created for the Research Laboratory "out on the hill" at a site overlooking the Mohawk River in nearby Niskavuna.
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He has been highly innovative in the development of effective approaches to both strategic and operational planning of technical work, in devising new technical liaison and technical information exchange techniques, in promoting and recognizing technical excellence, and in encouraging an extremely diversified company to utilize its varied strengths in new organizational and operations approaches. Art Bucche himself once clefined his job this way: "Our funciamental task is to spot the kind of person who at least demonstrates the potential for being the one in a hundred one in a thousand one in a lifetime who may have the flash of true genius.
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Achievements in new materials technology included development of a commercial process for fabricating cubic boron nitride, a man-macle material second in harcIness only to diamond; invention of polycrystalline diamond "compacts" for metal-cutting tools; the creation in the laboratory of the first synthesized gem diamoncis; the first simple and inexpensive technique for fabricating ceramic parts of silicon carbide; invention of silicon/silicon carbide composites; and several high-performance plastics, including a family of resins based on a unique technology of polymerization by oxidative coupling. In the field of energy R&D, achievements included advances in the development of water-cooled gas turbines, soclium-suIphur batteries, coal-gasification technology, and the production of energy-efficient lamps.
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Air Force, the National Bureau of Standards, and the Energy Research and Development Administration. In education, he served on the Board of Trustees of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the Albany Medical College, and the Huclson-Mohawk Valley Association of Colleges anct Universities.
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On Monday evening, October ~ 9, 198 I, Art Bucche server! as chairman of a dinner meeting at GE's Fairfield headquarters, held to honor eleven Steinmetz Award winners, people from various GE business components who had macle outstanding technical contributions during their careers with the company.
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Bucche's long-time associates saic! in his eulogy: Above all, Art Bucche was tough-minded.
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Light scattering by concentrated polymer solutions.
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Sci., 15:97. The curing of silicone rubber with benzoyl peroxide.
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Nuclear magnetic resonance study of molecular motion in polydimethylsiloxanes.
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1975 Polymers and interfaces. (Convocation address, dedication of George Stafford Whitby Hall, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio)
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(ASME Centennial Lecture, 6th InterAmerican Conference on Materials Technology.) Schenectady, N.Y.: General Electric.
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Department of Energy National Laboratory relationships with industry and the university community. (Statement before House Committee on Science and Technology, Subcommittee on Energy Development and Applications, and Subcommittee on Energy Research and Production.)
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Curable Organopolysiloxane Compositions Having Hydrolyzed Alkyl Trihalogenosilane Filler and Cured Products of Same.
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