In Memoriam

摘要

Robert Baboian died at home on November 3,2015. He was born on November 17,1934 in Watertown, Massachusetts. He graduated from Watertown High School in 1952 and then served in the United States Army stationed in Germany from 1953 to 1955. He received a B.S. degree in chemistry from Suffolk University in 1959 and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1964 on electrochemistry of titanium, zirconium, and hafnium in molten salts. He then conducted postdoctoral research as a Ford Foundation Fellow at the University of Toronto from 1964 to 1966, where he developed a high-temperature solution calorimeter for molten salts and liquid metals. Baboian was married to Roberta J. (Sanderson) Baboian, whom he met during the summer of 1958 and married on June 20,1959.