Cyril Stanley Smith letter to Dr. Clarence Zener, 1941 November 17.

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Cyril Stanley Smith letter to Dr. Clarence Zener, 1941 November 17.

Letter from Cyril Stanley Smith of the American Brass Company to his colleague Dr. Clarence Zener of Washington State College, in answer to Zener's letter of November 1. Smith states that he likes Zener's theory of stress-corrosion cracking very much, and he encloses comments from Mr. A. W. Tracy, a laboratory researcher with the American Brass Company, along with his own observations; he expresses approval of Zener's "idea of transfer of atoms from a high energy density side to a low energy density side."

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Smith, Cyril Stanley, 1903-1992

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Smith, Cyril Stanley, 1903-1992, Metallurgist of Cambridge, Mass. Smith received a doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1926 and taught there from 1961 until his retirement in 1969. His title of Institute Professor Emeritus of Metallurgy and the History of Metallurgy, one rarely conferred and only on those whose work goes beyond traditional disciplines, reflects the high esteem in which he was held. Smith has had great influence on contemporary metalsm...