Major Facilities Plenary speaker Dean Eastman Reports on NRC study of materials' needs

The Plenary Session will feature Dean Eastman, co-chairman of to serve as co-chairmen. The committee's membership was broadly the Major Materials Facilities Committee of the National reflective of the diverse disciplines that use such major facilities, Academy of Sciences' National Research Council. He will deliver such as synchrotron radiation and neutron facilities, and includes a major report on the committee's conclusions and the following: recommendations regarding priorities for new and upgraded major Richard B. Bernstein, University of California, Los Angeles materials research facilities. The Chairman of the Plenary Robert J. Birgeneau, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Session, MRS Vice President Bill Appleton, reports: Jerome B. Cohen, Northwestern University Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MRS Participation Harry G. Drickamer, University of Illinois "Those who attended the 1983 Plenary Session will recall that Peter Eisenberger, Exxon Research and Engineering Company George Keyworth, Presidential Science Advisor and Director of the Donald Engelman, Yale University Office of Science and Technology, stressed to our members the Walter Kohn, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara need for the materials science David W. Lynch, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory community to establish a Albert Narath, AT&T Bell Laboratories representative voice which William D. Nix, Stanford University could assist in evaluating Edward Rubenstein, Stanford University Medical Center materials research and in John J. Rish, National Bureau of Standards setting national priorities. As Albert I. Schindler, Naval Research Laboratory a result, Keyworth's office Arthur Sleight, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Inc. asked the National Research William P. Slichter, AT&T Bell Laboratories Council of the National Joseph V. Smith, University of Chicago Academy of Sciences to assist Richard Stein, University of Massachusetts in establishing priorities for H. Guyford Stever, Universities Research Association major facilities—i.e., those John M. White, University of Texas, Austin with initial costs of at least $5 million—for materials Top Priority: Synchrotron Facility research. "The committee's report, entitled Major Facilities for Materials "A committee of 22 Research and Related Disciplines, was transmitted to Keyworth's members was formed within office this summer. The report presents priorities both for new the NRC Commission of facilities and for new capabilities at existing facilities. The top Physical Science, priority assigned for a new facility was a 6 GeV synchrotron Mathematics, and Resources. DEAN EASTMAN radiation facility. The top priority for new capabilities at an Dean Eastman of International Business Machines Corporation and Professor Frederick Seitz of Rockefeller University were asked [Continued on Page 30]

The National Science Foundation is advancement. The National Science NSF seeks help conducting an evaluation of the impact of Foundation can then identify the funding the Foundation's funding support on recent source for the work described in these advances in the fundamental engineering papers and complete the evaluation. Some sciences. One of the disciplines in the thirty distinguished materials scientists, engineering sciences being evaluated is distributed over the broad field of materials "materials science engineering," and the science have been asked to participate in NSF has asked the Materials Research this task. Society to aid in this part of the evaluation. The continuing need for evaluation of the F.W. Young of Oak Ridge National effectiveness of the mechanisms for support Laboratories is managing this task for the of scientific research in the United States is Society. apparent. It is important that the The MRS is asked to identify topical Materials Research Society assume its areas within materials science engineering proper position in this process by providing that have advanced substantially over the timely, well-reasoned information and past twenty years, and for each topical area advice on matters pertaining to materials the seminal papers that led this science.

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