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C. Guy Suits
C. Guy Suits
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In fact, writers of do-it-yourself books might well pause to consider his story. He designed his own boomerangs and skis; largely furnished his home with handsome handmade reprocluctions of antique furniture; rewove Oriental rugs; constructed his own customized leather camera cases; and designed, cut, and sewed dresses for Mrs.
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As director of research for GE, Guy organized research teams that made hundreds of inventions, enriched scientific knowlec~ge, and yielded vast material benefits to mankind. Those innovations included the first Man-Made™ diamonds and the first commercial process for mass-producing them; Borazon~ cubic boron nitride, a synthetic material second in hardness only to diamond; the Multi-Vapor(8' lamp, still the leading high-efficiency light source; chemical research that led to Lexan(~' and Noryl(8' resins, two of the world's most famous engineering polymers; and the demonstration of electron tunneling—work that later won Ivar Giaever a share ofthe 1973 Nobel Prize for physics.
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His successors Art Bucche, Roland Schmitt, and myself were hired during his tenure, and we all owe Guy a huge debt of gratitude for his counsel and support. He loved his family and the Adirondacks, but he also loved GE and the people who made up the GE family.
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