Background
Gray, Allen Gibbs was born on July 28, 1915 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Son of Crawford H. and Marie (Gibbs) Gray.
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Gray, Allen Gibbs was born on July 28, 1915 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Son of Crawford H. and Marie (Gibbs) Gray.
Master of Science, Vanderbilt University, 1938. Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, 1940.
Chemist, metallurgist, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, 1940-1952;
technical work, Manhattan Atomic Bomb Project, 1943-1945;
technical editor, Steel magazine, 1952-1958;
editor, Metal Progress magazine, American Society Metals, 1958-1972;
public, Metal Progress magazine, American Society Metals, 1972-1981;
director periodical publications, American Society Metals, 1963-1981;
technical director, American Society Metals, 1974-1983;
now consultant, American Society Metals. Adjunct Professor materials science and engineering and management of technical Vanderbilt University, Nashville, since 1983. Advisor on strategic materials to industry and government.
Manager of government program on assessment of National Defense Stockpile Materials, since 1982. Lecturer to North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations on chromium conservation, Portugal, 1983. Delivered presentation on strategic materials, Institute of National Defense, Portugal, 1983.
Organizer strategic materials workshops. Advising committee on industrial information Atomic Energy Commission, since 1952. Chairman special committee technical aspects critical and strategic materials national materials board National Academy Sciences, since 1969.
Distinguished Fishel lecturer Vanderbilt University, 1976. Gave Congressional testimony on national materials policy and substitution, 1979. Advisory, speaker onmaterials substitution, raw materials planning and resources management, 1980.
Member Ohio Governor's Council on Atomic Energy, 1956-1958. General chairman National Conference on Materials Availability and Utilization, 1975. Chairman 7thBiennial Conference on National Materials Policy, 1982.
Member of advisory board Federation Materials Socs., 1975-1983, Welding Research Council, 1970-1982. Member technical advising committee Metal Properties Council, since 1975.
Fellow American Society Metals (honorary member), American Institute Chemists. Member American Societies Testing Materials, American Society Metals International (honorary), Association Technique de Traitement Thermique (honorary), Sigma Xi.
Married Jean Breckenridge, April 5, 1948. Children: Alice, James.