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Bob was born in West Bend, Wisconsin, on May 2S, 1926, the only son of Robert Henry Wentorf, chief engineer and product designer for the West Bend Aluminum Company, and Sophia Rusch Wentorf. Bob showed strong interest in things mechanical and chemical even as a young boy.
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With Bill Rocco, Bob then developed a sweep-through process whereby diamond or cubic boron nitride grains could be sintered to make strong polycr,vstalline aggregates for cutting tools, drill bits, and wire-drawing dies that have revolutionized these applications. Such compacts could not be found in nature with the controlled properties necessary for numerous machining and drilling tasks.
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, the Industrial Research Institute's Achievement Award in 1977, and three IR-100 awards. In 1986 Bob received the Man-of-the-Year Award of the Abrasive Engineering Society for outstanding contributions to abrasives and grincling technology and was specifically cited for his invention and development of Borazon.
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While eating peanut butter and crackers at lunch with Bob, one might have the privilege of his reading aloud from archy and mehitabel or Pogo, which were among his favorites for humor and philosophy. We did phase equilibria and crystallization of chocolate (another favorite food)
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