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Stanford Report, September 27, 2000
New advanced materials laboratory honors Geballe, brings together diverse disciplines
BY DAWN LEVY Magnet or catalyst? Stanford's newest Independent Laboratory is both. The Theodore H. Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials (LAM) brings together researchers from diverse disciplines to conceive and create advanced materials. The lab is named for Ted Geballe, professor emeritus in the departments of Applied Physics and Materials Science and Engineering, in recognition of his inspirational leadership in materials research.
Ted and Sissy Geballe with the lab's unofficial sign, created by Professor Aharon Kapitulnik. In Kabbalah (ancient Jewish mysticism), each letter in a word can be assigned a numeric value. Kapitulnik wrote 'Theodore "His vision has been the one that's guided us to where we Geballe' in Hebrew and are today," Malcolm Beasley, dean of the School of added up the value. Then he Humanities and Sciences, told attendees at the Aug. 23 wrote 'materials research' dedication of the new lab. "Ted believes deeply that new and did the same. The and advanced materials lead to new science and new values added up to exactly technologies, and that's what this laboratory's all about." the same number. This equivalence, Kapitulnik said, "I'm sure we'll be coming up with a lot of new advanced meant materials research and advancing materials, which are bound to open new was Geballe's destiny. insights into nature," Geballe said. "I have hopes [the research] will even lead to new technologies which will help photo: Dawn Levy solve the problems of the 10 billion or so people who will be inhabiting the Earth during this new century." LAM was born from the efforts of Stanford's materials science community to renovate the McCullough Building on campus using funds from the National Science Foundation. The new lab comes at a time when federal budget cuts in fields critical for continued technological advancement - physics, math, materials science, chemistry and engineering - - are creating shortfalls in the knowledge and skills necessary to support new products and services. Stanford has fared well despite federal cuts. The National Research Council ranks programs about every five years, Materials Science and Engineering department chair Bruce Clemens said in a phone interview. The council ranked Stanford's materials science and engineering program No. 6 in its most recent evaluation, Clemens said. The new lab will encompass research and development from theory to fabrication and performance. It will address the technology gap by supporting the fundamental understanding, development and application of advanced materials. The materials research equivalent of Stanford's interdisciplinary Bio- X initiative, LAM will host about 220 students and faculty from seven departments: Applied Physics, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Physics. "This broad interdisciplinary structure is certainly our great strength," said physics Professor Alexander Fetter, LAM's first director. Not well known beyond Stanford's scientific
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