Below are the first 10 and last 10 pages of uncorrected machine-read text (when available) of this chapter, followed by the top 30 algorithmically extracted key phrases from the chapter as a whole.
Intended to provide our own search engines and external engines with highly rich, chapter-representative searchable text on the opening pages of each chapter.
Because it is UNCORRECTED material, please consider the following text as a useful but insufficient proxy for the authoritative book pages.
Do not use for reproduction, copying, pasting, or reading; exclusively for search engines.
OCR for page 22
OCR for page 23
ARTHUR M. BUECHE
Novemberl4, 1920-October22, 1981
BY ROLAND SCHMITT
AM E R ~ C A S R & D T R ~ A N G ~ E was Arthur Maynard
Bucche's favorite way of describing the unique contri-
butions of universities, industry, and government to the na-
tion's total technological strength. The soundness of that tri-
angle was the principal focus of his extraordinary career in
science, engineering, management, and statesmanship on be-
half of technology.
Although he was employed in industry by a single com-
pany for thirty years Art Bucche's energy and enthusiasm
led him to devote large segments of his time and talents to
academia and government, while continuing to direct the
technical affairs of General Electric with a style that earned
the acclaim of his associates. 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. His writings and reports of that perioc! include bal-
ancecl and insightful comments on the respective roles of
industrial, academic, and government technology, along with
recommendations for improving the national economy, de
23
OCR for page 24
24
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS
fense, and the strength of the nation's educational system
through cooperation and mutual respect. (Soon after his in-
auguration, President Reagan offered Dr. Bucche the post of
presidential science adviser. Newspaper accounts at the time
said Dr. Bucche had reluctantly (leclinecl for personal rea-
sons. Although he never discussed this matter with them, his
closest friends believe he had personal premonitions about
his health that made him fear he could not give the White
House position the alI-out effort he felt it must have.)
Arthur Maynard Bunches was born in Flushing, Michi-
gan, on November 14, 1920. His father was an enterprising
small-town businessman who put his son to work as a clerk
in the family grocery store when he was eleven years oIcI, anct
later as a milIhand and mechanic in the family farm-imple-
ment business. During high school, young Art was very much
involved in extracurricular activities, inclucling debating, stu-
(lent government, track, football, plays, operettas, band, glee-
club, anc! orchestra. Near the end of his senior year, several
of his high school teachers counseled him to stucly law at the
University of Michigan. "But," as he wrote later, "it didn't
work out quite that way."
Art's father wanted him to stay in Flushing and learn to
run the family's flourishing businesses. His mother wanted
him to go on to college, although she had misgivings about
a career in law. Almost on a whim, based partly on the respect
he hac! for his high school chemistry teacher but even more
because of the ambition of a close frienc! and classmate, Art
decidect he wanted to be a chemical engineer. He enrollee! at
~ Art preferred that the name be pronounced BEEK'-uh, although he was always
remarkably tolerant of the countless variations he inevitably encountered. His as-
sociates in chemistry suggested it was like "beaker," without the r, and a favorite in-
house couplet made note of his role as GE's fourth research director:
Like Archimedes, shout 'Eureka'-
Whitney, Coolidge, Suits, and Bucche.
OCR for page 25
ARTHUR M. BUECHE
25
Flint Junior College,2 riding a bus ten miles each day from
Flushing, and ended up in a liberal arts course with a "major"
in chemistry. Early on at Flint, an adviser told him he was
better suited to the study of chemistry than of chemical en
. .
glneerlng.
During his two years at the University of Michigan, where
he received his B.S. in chemistry in 1943, Art began to rec-
ognize that his interests and aptitudes leaned more toward
research than to formal course work. This interest survived
and grew, even though his first major research effort inves-
tigating 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 cyclo-
tron 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 writ-
ten many years later, Art said, "At Cornell ~ shopped around
for a thesis adviser and found many fine possibilities. Unfor-
tunately' the adviser ~ wanted most was Professor (Peter) De
bye, but he was reluctant to take on any more students. I
guess ~ forced my way on him."
in January of 1946, soon after presenting his first paper
(on thermal diffusion of polymer solutions) to the American
Physical Society, Art was encouraged to forego his teaching
duties "although ~ enjoyed them immensely" so that he
could devote his full attention to research on synthetic rubber
in a program directed by Professor Debye under contract
2 In later years, when asked to provide biographical information for the records
of various organizations or for people who were to introduce him on speaking
occasions, Dr. Bueche always asked that Flint Junior College be included along with
the University of Michigan, Ohio State, and Cornell. He was a firm believer in the
importance of education at all levels and was a great supporter of junior colleges.
OCR for page 26
26
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS
from the Office of Rubber Reserve. He later wrote: "The
contribution that I macle which was perhaps the most pio-
neering in nature was that involving the cl~etermination of the
size of polymer molecules in solution. To the best of my
knowlecige, this was the first time that this had been clone
and I was encouraged by Professor Debye to use his light-
scattering theories to accomplish this." (Debye had received
his Nobel Prize in 1936 for studies of light-scattering phe-
nomena.) The Debye-Bucche work on the size and shape of
polymer molecules has been fundamental to further studies
of solution behavior, chemical reactions, and viscosity.
Bucche received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Cornell
in 1947.
The young Cornell research assistant was {urea to Sche-
nectady, New York, and the General Electric Research Lab-
oratory mainly on the strength of a canclicl at times almost
confrontational interview with Dr. A. LincoIn Marshall.
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. He recognized that young
Bucche had unusual intellectual capacity; he hoped there was
also the kind of restless spirit so essential to the job of moving
research results to practical application with minimum delay.
Marshall's hopes, although he later acimittecT he had some
reservations about them at first, were to be amply fulfilled.
Thus Bucche joined GE "at the bench" in 1950. He not only
adapted himself to the pace of industrial research but also
was soon fully enmeshed in it. One of the acivancecI ideas in
polymer science in the late 1940s involves] shooting a beam
of high-energy electrons into a polymer and trying to get the
electrons to cause desirable new connections crosslinks-
between the individual long chains. Marshall, who had
OCR for page 27
ARTHUR M. BUECHE
worked on an early version of the iclea back in 1925,
27
initiated
a project in 1951. It paired Bucche with a veteran physicist,
Elliot Lawton. A million volt accelerator tract become available
due to the Lab's earlier x-ray work. In 1952, Lawton and
Bucche used it to crosslink polyethylene. GE's Chemical
Products Department immediately became interested, and
work got uncler way leading to another new product, Irrath-
ene~, a high-performance plastic that was the first ever made
by electron irradiation techniques. Making crosslinked poly-
ethylene at all represented a substantial achievement. How-
ever, making it by electron beam irradiation turned out to be
too expensive for anything but specialty applications. But it
catalyzer! a new insulation technology.
The first half-clozen years in Schenectady, from 1950 until
1956, constituted Bucche's "research years." It was a time of
wicle-ranging exploration into new fields of polymer chem-
istry, of writing papers, and of producing patents at the rate
of about two each year. Although he had first assumed a
managerial title in 1953 (leacling a small research team then
called Polymer and Interface Stuclies), it was not until the late
1950s that his growing responsibilities forced him to spend
a majority of hits time in management. rather than at the
bench.
When Marshall retiree! in 1961, C. Guy Suits, GE's re-
search 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 plas-
tics business. As manager of chemistry research, Bucche hacI
clemonstratect incisiveness, ability to motivate others, in-
creasec! unclerstancling of business problems and their rela-
tionships to technological opportunities, and on a day-to-
day basis funciamentally sound management skills. It was
no great surprise, then, that Arthur M. Bucche was named
OCR for page 28
28
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS
to succeed Suits when the latter retired in 1965. Bucche was
to continue the notable record of continuity among research
directors at GE: Willis R. Whitney, the laboratory's founder,
had served from 1900 to 1932; William D. Coolicige from
~ 932 to ~ 945; and Suits from ~ 946 to ~ 965. Bucche would
extend this record so that the leadership of these four men
would span seventy-eight years!
Although it may not have been surprising that Bueche
succeeded Suits, there were shock waves within the ranks of
GE technology when, in announcing Bucche's new appoint-
ment, the company also said it was combining the Research
Laboratory with tile Advanced Technology Laboratories to
create a new entity to be known as the General Electric Re-
search and Development Center. Thus Art Bucche's new job
brought with it a major challenge. The former Research Lab-
oratory, an organization with a long tradition of emphasis on
fundamental research, had always been supported almost
completely by GE corporate funds, and it had often been
cautioned in the past by company management not to per-
form engineering or development work that might detract
from its science-oriented mission. The former Acivanced
Technology Laboratories, earlier callecI the General Engi-
neering 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 Sche-
nectacly 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. Art Bucche's assignment was to not onIv inte
.. . 1.
. . .
.
grate these two disparate organizations Into a cooperative,
smoothly working whole, but also-of greatest importance-
to "get them connected to the company" and in tune with
OCR for page 29
ARTHUR M. BUECHE
29
General Electric's growing technological neects and objec
tlves.
On the night before Dr. Bucche died, he was honored in
absentia by the Franklin Institute with its Delmer S. Fahrney
Medal. The citation react on that occasion succinctly sum-
marizec! how well the challenges of 1965 were met. It react,
in part:
From 1965 to 1978, under his leadership, this combined entity (the
new General Electric Research and Development Center) achieved re-
markable success, with the staff grown to more than 2000, including 800
scientists and engineers, and with laboratories in many domestic and over-
seas locations. Dr. Bucche's leadership of these operations has been rec-
ognized as an unusually outstanding example of managerial skill. He has
been highly innovative in the development of effective approaches to both
strategic and operational planning of technical work, in devising new tech-
nical 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. Then our job, above all others, is to give
these people, and their ideas, a chance to survive and grow."
He would constantly ask his associates, "What's new? What's
the new idea? Why can't we get this clone faster? What are
the obstacles? Let's get moving." He pushed, cTirectecl,
stretched, and challenged people to reach beyond what they
tract thought they could accomplish. As one coworker toIct a
news reporter preparing an article about Art Bucche, "It's
tough to match his effort on the job, seven clays a week. He
sets an example that's clifficult for people to follow. And this
inspires them. He won't take no for an answer. Anc! he wants
to unclerstanct everything."
OCR for page 30
30
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS
The achievements of the R&D Center under his lead-
ership were many and noteworthy. In electronics, the ac-
complishments included the development of an advanced
computerized axial tomography (CAT) x-ray scanner; the de-
velopment of the first solid-state imager based on charge-
injection crevice technology; invention of thermomigration, a
process that reducect the time requirec! for certain semicon-
ductor processing steps; and the invention of the surface
charge correlator, a new semiconductor crevice for analog sig-
nal processing. Achievements in new materials technology
included development of a commercial process for fabricat-
ing cubic boron nitride, a man-macle material second in harcI-
ness only to diamond; invention of polycrystalline diamond
"compacts" for metal-cutting tools; the creation in the labo-
ratory of the first synthesized gem diamoncis; the first simple
and inexpensive technique for fabricating ceramic parts of
silicon carbide; invention of silicon/silicon carbide compos-
ites; and several high-performance plastics, including a fam-
ily of resins based on a unique technology of polymerization
by oxidative coupling. In the field of energy R&D, achieve-
ments included advances in the development of water-cooled
gas turbines, soclium-suIphur batteries, coal-gasification tech-
nology, and the production of energy-efficient lamps.
Dr. Bucche's achievements brought him a variety of mecl-
als ant! honors, inclucling eight honorary doctorates. They
also brought him promotion within General Electric, to the
post of senior vice president for corporate technology in
1978. This meant he became the company's top technical of-
ficer and spokesman and joined the corporate executive com-
mittee but he also hac! to move from Schenectady to Fair-
field, Connecticut. This required that he relinquish the direct
clay-to-clay responsibility for the R&D Center, although the
Center remained uncler his purview as a senior officer.
From the time he first became a company officer in 1965,
OCR for page 31
A RT H U R M . B U E C H E
31
Dr. Bucche recognizes! his role and responsibility as a public
spokesman for technology. His platform appearances, before
GE ant] outside audiences, averaged nearly one each week
over a perioc! of fifteen years. He was in great clemancI as an
interpreter of technology and, towarc! the end of his career,
as a forthright spokesman on technology policy and the ap-
propriate roles of universities, industry, and government in
the "R&D triangle." He also spoke to many international au-
cliences: in Japan, the South American nations, Mexico, Can-
ada, France, Italy, Spain, and Germany. He served as Amer-
ican chairman of the World Electrotechnical Congress in
Moscow during 1977. Appearances in Great Britain included
a Faraday Lecture at the Royal Institution (during which
Man-made cliamoncis were actually proclucecl "on the spot")
and the Kelvin Lecture for the Institute of Electrical Engi
neers.
As an active member of the National Academy of Sci-
ences, he servect on the Academy Forum Advisory Commit-
tee anc! the Finance Committee. He was a member of the
National Academy of Engineering and of the Executive
Committee of its Council. He served as president and a di-
rector of the Industrial Research Institute.
In government, he was active on several advisory groups
to the presiclent's office on matters related to science and
technology. He also servect as a member or consultant with
science anc! technology committees of the National Science
Foundation, NASA, the U.S. 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. He was a member of Visiting Committees at
Massachusetts institute of Technology, Harvard, and Duke;
OCR for page 32
32
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS
of the Advisory Committee of the School of Metallurgy and
Materials Science, as well as of the Board of Overseers, for
the School of Engineering and Appliecl Science at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania; and of the Advisory Boarc! of the
Institute of Materials Sciences at the University of Connecti-
cut. His contributions to, ant! associations with, his alma ma-
ter, Cornell, were legion; among his assignments was chair-
manship of the Council for the College of Engineering.
While a resident of Schenectady (from 1950 to 1978), his
public service incluclecI boarcI membership of Ellis Hospital
and of Sunnyview Hospital and Rehabilitation Center. He
also found considerable personal satisfaction in helping
guide the affairs of one of the area's largest and most pro-
gressive banking institutions, the Schenectady Savings Bank
(now Northeast Savings), as an active boarct member.
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 win-
ners, people from various GE business components who had
macle outstanding technical contributions during their ca-
reers with the company. Early the next morning, he suffered
a massive heart attack. In spite of superb medical attention,
including some pioneering new techniques, he diect at St.
Vincent's Hospital, Bridgeport, Connecticut, on October 22,
1981.
His family3 and associates moved at once to establish a
fitting memorial: the Arthur M. Bucche Memorial Fund, cur-
rently administerect by the National Academy of Engineer-
ing. Each year the NAE Awards Committee will select a re-
cipient to be honored for "outstanding statesmanship in
.
3 Dr. Bucche was survived by his four children: Kristine of Wilmington, North
Carolina; A. John of Ellsworth, Maine; Margaret of Ballston Lake, New York; Eliz
abeth of Schenectady, New York; one grandchild; and two brothers, Frederick I. of
Flushing, Michigan, and Bernard M. of Flushing, New York.
OCR for page 33
ARTHUR M. BUECHE
33
science anct technology." The recipients will be asked to pre-
sent lectures on science and technology issues, and a cash gift
will be made to the school where the lecture is presentecl.
At the funeral service in St. John the Evangelist Church,
Schenectady, on October 27th, one of Dr. Bucche's long-time
associates saic! in his eulogy:
Above all, Art Bucche was tough-minded. That was a quality he re-
spected highly respected- in others. And we respected, admired, envied
him for his tough-mindedness for the intellectual power for the con-
centration for the genius' attention to detail for the searching ques-
tions that made us all recognize, so often, how far ahead of us he was in
his thinking for the willingness to devote energy, time, enthusiasm, and
persistence to the task at hand, with a diligence and dedication the rest of
us could only marvel at, hold in awe.
OCR for page 34
34
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1947
With P. Debye. Microgel content and optical dissymmetry of GR-S
solutions. Washington, D.C.: Office of Rubber Reserve.
With P. Debye. Molecular weights and sizes of molecules by 90°
scattering at different wave lengths. Washington, D.C.: Office
of Rubber Reserve.
1948
Adsorption of polystyrene on carbon and its molecular weight de-
pendence. Washington, D.C.: Office of Rubber Reserve.
The concentration dependence of the molecular friction coeffi-
cients of large molecules. Washington, D.C.: Office of Rubber
Reserve.
With P. Debye. The temperature dependence of the intrinsic vis-
cosity. Washington, D.C.: Office of Rubber Reserve.
With P. Debye. The measurement of the angular dependence of
light scattering. Washington, D.C.: Office of Rubber Reserve.
With P. Debye. Thermal diffusion of polymer solutions. In: High
Polymer Physics. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Chemical Publishing.
With P. Debye. Intrinsic viscosity, diffusion and sedimentation rates
of polymers in solution. J. Chem. Phys., 16:573.
1949
With P. Debye. Scattering by an inhomogeneous solid. I. Appl.
Phys., 20:5 18.
Dimensions of coiling polymer molecules from viscosity and light
scattering. l. Am. Chem. Soc., 71:1452.
1950
With P. Debye. Scattering by inhomogeneous materials. In: Colloid
Chemistry, Theoretical and Applied, vol. 7, ed. Jerome Alexander.
New York: Reinhold Publishing.
With P. Debye. Light scattering by concentrated polymer solutions.
i. Chem. Phys., 18:1423.
1951
With T. G. Fox and P. i. Flory. Treatment of osmatic and light
scattering for dilute solutions. I. Am. Chem. Soc., 73:285.
OCR for page 35
ARTHUR M. BUECHE
1952
35
Melting temperature and polymer-solvent interaction: Polychlo-
rotrifluoroethylene. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 74:65.
A physical theory of rubber reinforcement. J. Appl. Phys., 23: 154.
1953
Stress relaxation in elastomers. I. Chant. Phys., 21:614.
With E. }. Lawton and }. S. Balwit. Irradiation of polymers by high
energy electrons. Nature, 172:76.
1954
With R. C. Osthoff and W. T. Grubb. Chemical stress-relaxation of
polydimethylsiloxane elastomers. }. Am. Chem. Soc., 76:4659.
With E. }. Lawton and }. S. Balwit. Effect of initial molecular weight
on properties of irradiated polyethylene. Ind. Eng. Chem.,
46: 1703.
1955
Interaction of polydimethylsiloxanes with swelling agents. J. Po-
lym. Sci., 15:97.
The curing of silicone rubber with benzoyl peroxide. I. Polym. Sci.,
15:105.
1956
The ultimate properties of simple elastomers. I. Polym. Sci.
19:275.
An investigation of the theory of rubber elasticity using irradiated
polydimethylsiloxanes. J. Polym. Sci., 19:297.
With A. V. White. Kinematographic study of tensile fracture in
polymers. l. Appl. Phys., 27:980.
1957
Filler reinforcement of silicone rubber. i. Polym. Sci., 25: 139.
1958
With P. i. Flory. Theory of light scattering by polymer solution. l.
Polym. Sci., 27:219.
With R. W. Kilb. Solution and fractionation properties of graft
polymers. J. Polym. Sci., 28:285.
With D. G. Flom. Surface friction and dynamic mechanical prop-
erties of polymer. Wear, 2: 168.
OCR for page 36
36
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS
1959
With J. P. Berry. The mechanisms of polymer failure. In: Fracture,
pp. 265-80. New York: Technology Press and John Wiley &
Sons.
With D. G. Flom. Theory of rolling friction for spheres. J. Appl.
Phys., 30:1725.
With L. E. St. Pierre. The role of carbon dioxide in catalyzed sil-
oxane cleavage. i. Phys. Chem., 63: 1338.
With L. E. St. Pierre and H. A. Dewhurst. Swelling and elasticity
of irradiated polydimethylsiloxanes. J. Polym. Sci., 36: 105.
1960
With C. M. Huggins and L. E. St. Pierre. Nuclear magnetic reso-
nance study of molecular motion in polydimethylsiloxanes. I.
Phys. Chem., 64:1304.
With l. P. Berry. Ultimate strength of polymers. In: Proceedings of
the Symposium on Adhesion and Cohesion, pp. 18-35. Amsterdam:
Elsevier Publishing.
1963
With C. M. Huggins and L. E. St. Pierre. Further NMR studies of
polydimethylsiloxanes: Effects of radiation-induced crosslink-
ing. J Polym. Sci., 1 :2731.
1967
industry and the pollution problem. Environ. Sci. Technol., 1:24-
30.
With C. Guy Suits. Cases of research and development in a diver-
sified company. In: Applied Science and Technological Progress, pp.
297-346. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences.
1968
Today's R&D where the excitement is. Ind. Gen. Appl.,4(6):580-
82.
1969
An appraisal of MHD 1969. (Prepared for the MHD Panel of the
President's Office of Science and Technology, Washington, D.C.)
Schenectady, N.Y.: General Electric.
OCR for page 37
ARTHUR M. BUECHE
37
1971
Consumer and industrial electronics. (Keynote session, IEEE '71,
1971 International Convention and Exposition on Redirecting
Electro-Technology for a Better World.) Schenectady, N.Y.:
General Electric.
1972
Electric utilities industry research and development goals through
the year 2000. (Prepared for IEEE Power Engineering Society
winter meeting, New York.) Schenectady, N.Y.: General Electric.
"Technology investment" in energy sources and power generation.
(Prepared for 25th annual conference, Financial Analysts Fed-
eration, New York.) Schenectady, N.Y.: General Electric.
The changing relationship between industry and academic science.
Chem. Technol., 2(11):697-700.
1973
Energy investment risks. Electr. World, April 1, pp. 34-35.
Energy options. Electrochem. Soc., 120(101: 295C-99C.
1974
The challenge to technology. In: Our Nation's Energy Crisis and Geor-
gias Future, pp. 96-105. Atlanta: Georgia Institute of Technol-
ogy and Georgia Power Co.
Making materials R&D pay off (by asking "so what?". Mat. Sci.
Eng., 16: 197-200.
The supply of scientists and engineers. (Convocation address,
150th anniversary, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New
York.) Schenectady, N.Y.: General Electric.
Diamond synthesis a continuing exploration. Proc. R. Inst. G.B.,
47:287-302. London: Applied Science Publishers.
1975
Polymers and interfaces. (Convocation address, dedication of
George Stafford Whitby Hall, University of Akron, Akron,
Ohio). Schenectady, N.Y.: General Electric.
1976
Synthetic rubber in World War II. Science, 191:1007.
OCR for page 38
38
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS
1978
A parallel. Chemtech, 8~7~:429-30.
Investment in innovation. Mater. Soc., 2: 269 - 77.
1979
The economy. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci., 1979:138-53.
Principles, perceptions and projections. (IRI Honor Lecture.)
Schenectady, N.Y.: General Electric.
The challenge of R&D leadership. (62nd annual conference,
American Marketing Association.) Schenectady, N.Y.: General
Electric.
Innovation in the United States its states of health. (Fourth
Franklin Conference, The Franklin Institute.) Schenectady,
N.Y.: General Electric.
1980
New challenges for research administrators. Polym. News, 6: 193 -
96.
Technology, innovation and productivity. (Colloquium for inau-
guration of the Materials Processing Center, Massachusetts In-
stitute of Technology.) Schenectady, N.Y.: General Electric.
Innovation: issue or answer? (1980 lectures on Science, Technol-
ogy, and Society, Illinois Institute of Technology.) Schenectady,
N.Y.: General Electric.
The hard truth about our energy future. (IEEE, 1980 conference
on U.S. Technological Policy.) Schenectady, N.Y.: General Elec-
tric.
Responsiveness, initiative, and creativity. (Gold Medal Address,
American Institute of Chemists, Inc.) Schenectady, N.Y.: Gen-
eral Electric.
Expanded use of electricity as a substitute for liquid fuels. (Collo-
quium on Planning for an Energy Emergency, Scientists and
Engineers for Secure Energy, Stanford University.) Schenec-
tady, N.Y.: General Electric.
Materials and energy. (ASME Centennial Lecture, 6th Inter-
American Conference on Materials Technology.) Schenectady,
N.Y.: General Electric.
OCR for page 39
ARTHUR M. BUECHE
1981
39
Can cooperation replace confrontation? (Presented to National
Council of Patent Law Associations.) Schenectady, N.Y.: General
Electric.
Government-industry relationships in the '80s. (80th anniversary
lecture, National Bureau of Standards.) Schenectady, N.Y.:
General Electric.
1-2.
A basis for optimism. (Presented to Engineering Society of De-
troit.) Schenectady, N.Y.: General Electric.
Department of Energy National Laboratory relationships with in-
dustry and the university community. (Statement before House
Committee on Science and Technology, Subcommittee on En-
ergy Development and Applications, and Subcommittee on En-
ergy Research and Production.) Schenectady, N.Y.: General
Electric.
Some personal opinions on energy policy. Power Eng. Rev., 1~81:
Physics and U.S. industry. (Presented to 1981 Meeting of Corporate
Associates, American Institute of Physics.) Schenectady, N.Y.:
General Electric.
OCR for page 40
40
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS
PATENTS
1955
U.S. Patent 2,710,290 ~ June 7,1955~. With M. M. Sanford. Organo-
polysiloxane-Polytetrafluoroethylene Mixtures.
1957
U.S. Patent 2,805,958 (September 10, 1957~. With C. S. Oliver.
Preparation of Hydrophobic Silicas.
U.S. Patent 2,809,180 (October 8, 19571. With G. V. Browning.
Curable Organopolysiloxane Compositions Having Hydro-
lyzed Alkyl Trihalogenosilane Filler and Cured Products of
Same.
1958
Up. Patent 2,858,259 (October 28, 1958~. With E. I. Lawton. Elec-
tron Irradiation of Preformed Polyamide Resin.
1 959
U.S. Patent 2,906,678 (September 29, 1959~. With E. i. Lawton.
Process of Irradiating Polyethylene at Elevated Temperatures.
U.S. Patent 2,914,502 (November 24, 19591. Process for Curing
Organopolysiloxanes with a Hydrophobic Silica and Product
Thereof.
1960
U.S. Patent 2,948,329 (August 9,1960~. With G. L. Gaines, fir. Mica
Paper.
1961
U.S. Patent 2,967,113 (January 3, 1961~. With H. A. Liebhafsky.
Coating Method.
U.S. Patent 2,993,809 ~ July 25, 19614. With C. S. Oliver. Method
for Making Treated Silica Fillers.
1962
U.S. Patent 3,024,146 (March 6, 19621. With C. S. Oliver. Silicone
Rubber Adhesive Containing Treated Filler.
U.S. Patent 3,031,366 (April 24, 1962~. With C. S. Oliver. Degraded
Organopolysiloxanes as Adhesives.
OCR for page 41
Representative terms from entire chapter:
light scattering
