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NACE OFFICERS PRESIDENT Kevin C. Garrity* Mears Group Plain City, OH VICE PRESIDENT Tushar Jhaveri* Vasu Chemicals Mumbai, India TREASURER Jeffrey L. Didas* MATCOR Mechanicsville, VA PAST PRESIDENT Oliver C. Moghissi* DNV Dublin, OH EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Robert H. Chalker* NACE International Houston, TX DIRECTORS Michael Ames/2010-2013 SAE, Inc. Humble, TX James E. Feather/2010-2013 ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Fairfax, VA Stein Olsen/2010-2013 Statoil Hydro Trondheim, Norway James M. Sapp/2010-2013 MESA Tallahassee, FL Leonardo Uller/2010-2013 SURPLUS Solutions Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Ahmed M. Al-Zahrani/2010-2013 Saudi Aramco Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Samir Degan/2011-2014 Osnar Paints and Contracts Private Ltd. Mumbai, India William G. Mueller/2011-2014 Allied Corrosion Industries, Inc. Marietta, GA David A. Schramm/2011-2014 EN Engineering, L.L.C. Woodridge, IL Jenny Been/2012-2015 Alberta Innovates Technology Futures Calgary, AB, Canada Timothy Bieri/2012-2015 BP America, Inc. Houston, TX Sylvia Hall/2012-2015 National Oilwell Varco South Gate, CA *Executive Committee members 78 MATERIALS PERFORMANCE November 2012 In Memoriam D avid Scantlebury, teacher and re- searcher in corrosion science and engineering at UMIST (The University of Manchester), died on July 13, 2012. He was 68 years old. Scantlebury was a larger-than-life character, who left an indelible mark on all those who met him.He was born on October 23, 1943 in Penzance, Corn- wall. He attended Downing College, Cambridge and graduated in 1965 in natural sciences and metallurgy. His contemporaries in corrosion included John Sykes, Chris Page, José Galvele, Eamonn Kinsella, Steve Turgoose, Bob Cottis, and Robin Procter, while his undergraduate director of studies was T.P. "Sam" Hoar. He would have been taught by (or met) those that were then famous, WZ JMKIUM NIUW][ QV \PM KWZZW[QWV ÅMTL including Cottrell, Hoar, Evans, Davies, Ralph, Kelly, Chilton, and in particular, Jack Mayne, who supervised his Ph.D. on "The Mechanism of Conduction in Pigmented Polymer Membranes," which began his lifelong passion for paints. Scantlebury joined Portsmouth Poly- technic as a lecturer in 1970 before his move to the Corrosion and Protection Centre at UMIST in 1974. Through the ensuing years he developed what be- came a world-renowned research group in protective organic coatings. He was promoted to a personal chair in Corro- sion Science and Engineering in 2006 and continued to be actively involved in teaching and research to this present year. In 2007 he received the U.R. Ev- ans award of the Institute of Corrosion for research excellence. In 2001 he was awarded the UMIST Millennium Prize for excellence in teaching. It is not an M`IOOMZI\QWV \W [Ia \PI\ PM LQZMK\Ta QVÆ]- enced an entire generation of corrosion engineers. Scantlebury's research interests in paints and organic coatings extended to cathodic protection, corrosion of reinforcing steel in concrete, marine cor- rosion, and the development of calcare- W][ ÅTU[ 0M XQWVMMZML VW^MT \WWT[ NWZ measuring interfacial properties between coatings and substrates including the ac- curate measurement of adhesion using the "blow-off" method. With colleagues at UMIST, he pioneered the application of electrochemical impedance spectros- copy to the measurement of organic coatings degradation, making major steps in the elucidation of the mechanisms of ]VLMZÅTU KWZZW[QWV IVL QVPQJQ\QWV KWI\- QVO LQ[JWVLUMV\ IVL ÅTQNWZU KWZZW[QWV He was particularly fond of the Far East and Australasia and at various times was a visiting professor in Xiamen Uni- versity (China), Chulalonghorn Universi- ty (Bangkok), Murdoch University (West- ern Australia), and the Science University of Tokyo. He undertook sabbatical leave at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. He was a keynote speaker at many confer- ences, memorably twice for the Libyan Corrosion Society and three times at the Australasian Corrosion Association Congresses. In 1989, he established the quinquennial Christ's College conference series on "Advances in Corrosion Protec- tion by Organic Coatings." The 2014 event, which he was planning before he died, will go ahead in his memory. Scantlebury's long illness was docu- mented throughout the years on the "D6 News" blog (now sadly unavailable) that had been his communication link from UMIST to past students and others who knew about it. Although he was rallying and planning to return to lecturing in November, unfortunately this was not to be. He leaves us all missing him terribly. He is survived by his wife Ilma and children, Michael, Liz, and Andrew. (—Stuart Lyon) NACE International, Vol. 51, No. 11