Onoda Joins NIST

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Feb. 19, 1997                                (301) 975-4858
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                        ONODA JOINS NIST

     George Y. Onoda has joined the Ceramics Division of the National
Institute of Standards and Technology's Materials Science and
Engineering Laboratory in Gaithersburg, Md.

     Onoda serves as leader of the Ceramic Characterization and
Processing Group and coordinates the International Energy Agency
Agreement subtask on powder characterization. He also is initiating a
Ceramic Processing Characterization Consortium involving U.S. companies,
federal laboratories and universities.

     Onoda was formerly with Alfred University of Alfred, N.Y., where he
served as professor of ceramics, technical director of the New York
State Center for Advanced Ceramics Technology and founding director of
the Whiteware Research Center. He is an American Ceramic Society member
of the Basic Science Division and served previously as its chairman.

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