Background
Shaffer, Peter Thomas Barnum was born on October 24, 1929 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Charles Holmes and Anne Barbara (Brubaker) Shaffer.
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Peter Thomas Barnum Shaffer
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Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1951; Doctor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, 1955; postdoctoral, Baylor University, 1974; postdoctoral, U. N.H., 1974.
Career
Senior engineer, E I duPont de Nemours & Company, Niagara Falls, New York, 1955-1958;
senior research associate, Carborundum, Niagara Falls, 1958-1981;
vice president, co-founder, Advanced Refractory Technologies, Buffalo, 1981-1990;
vice president technical, Technology Ceramics laboratories, Alpharetta, Georgia, 1985-1994;
consultant, Cumming, Georgia, since 1994. President Hartstoffe, Buffalo. President, vice president Heany Hartstoffe, Scottsdale, New York.
Member International Committee on Silicon Carbide, 1966. Member materials technical advising committee unites states department Commerce, 1987-1994.
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Membership
Member American Society for Testing and Materials, NRA (life), American Ceramic Society, American Chemical Society, American Society Materials, Izaac Walton League, National Wildlife Federation, Ducks Unlimited, TroutUnltd. (chapter president, state county, state chairman, national director), American Society Metals, National Institute Ceramic Engineers, Sigma Xi.
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Married Suzanne Chesney, August 25, 1962. Children: Tanya Anne Shaffer Onori, Scott Peter.
