Society Awards and Honors
2003 Fellowships
Society of Vacuum Coaters Elects Pete Martin as Mentor
The Society of Vacuum Coaters, SVC, has elected Pete Martin, a senior staff scientist and Laboratory Fellow,as a Mentor, or Fellow, of the Society of Vacuum Coaters (www.svc.org). The honor reflects more than 25 years of dedicated service to the coatings industry, including authoring and co-authoring more than 150 technical publications. Martin serves on the SVC's Board of Directors, is the technical editor and senior technologist for Vacuum Technology and Coating, and has served as the program chair for the Annual Technical Conference of the Society since 2001. He will be recognized in May at the 2003 Technical Conference in San Francisco. Martin is internationally recognized for his thin-film coatings research. He earned a doctorate in solid state physics from Ohio State University, and joined PNNL in 1978. (announced 3/1/2003)