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Volume 24 - December 1999

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  • Research/Researchers

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    29 November 2013, pp. 3-8
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Letter from the President

  • The More Eccentric the idea, the Better for MRS

  • Ron Gibala
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    29 November 2013, p. 3
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  • MRS Embraces Soft Materials

  • Ron Gibala
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    29 November 2013, p. 3
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    29 November 2013, pp. 5-20
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Material Matters

Editorial

  • Behind the Themes and Between the Lines

  • Elizabeth L. Fleischer
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    29 November 2013, p. 3
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Material Matters

  • Beryllium, the Final Frontier: A Letter to My Grandson

  • Loren A. Jacobson
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    29 November 2013, pp. 4-6

  • I realize that you have only just turned three years old, but I thought it might be interesting for you at some time in the future to read about some of the things that concern your Grandpa Jake today. In recent years, episodes of a popular television program opened with this statement, “Space, the Final Frontier!” I have worked for many years on the development of structural metals, putting most of my attention recently on the metal beryllium. And I have been feeling lately as though we need something similarly dramatic to be said about this metal, such as “Beryllium, the Final Frontier,” or perhaps more appropriately, “Beryllium, Stairway to the Final Frontier!” I want to share these thoughts with you because of two important truths about structural metals. One is that Metallurgy is like Medicine: They only call you up when something goes wrong. And the other truth is that structural materials, when they work, are invisible. So we have to work harder in order to gain the attention that structural materials deserve. Beryllium is truly the last structural metal that has outstanding properties that have not been fully exploited by society in order to meet the needs for greater structural efficiency and the savings in energy and effort that result from meeting these societal needs. So, on with “Beryllium, the Final Frontier!”

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  • Materials Science: Parepistemes Rampant

  • Robert W. Cahn
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Letter from the President

  • MRS Takes the Lead in Materials Research Public Outreach

  • Ron Gibala
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  • Advertisers in This Issue

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Letters to the Editor

  • Additional Information on Emergence of Chalcopyrites as Nonlinear Optical Materials

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Letter from the President

  • MRS Remains Interdisciplinary, Dynamic, and Egalitarian

  • Ron Gibala
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