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Cyril Stanley Smith, Walter J. Smith, Thomas A. Marshall, Jr., and Alfred C. Webber talk casually during the Amerian Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Conference of 1963.

Original caption: "Relaxing During ASTM Committee Week February 3-8, 1963 Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Canada

Left to right: Dr. Cyril Stanley Smith, Institute Professor, Massachusetts of Technology [sic] and First Lecturer - ASTM Lecture on Outstanding Research - Feb. 6, 1963.

Subject: Some Outstanding Historical Metallurgical Researches. The Lecture on Outstanding Research was instituted by ASTM in 1962 for the purpose of having scientists and industrial research men, who have personally made outstanding contributions to scientific knowledge, discuss the major research in their fields with emphaiss on the circumstances and conditions favoring successful research.

Walter J. Smith, Chemical Engineer, Arthur D. Little, Co., Inc. Cambridge, Mass.

Thomas A. Marshall, Jr., Executive Secretary, American Society for Testing and Materials, 1916 Race Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Alfred C. Webber, President of ASTM, and Assistant to the Laboratory Director, Plastics Dept., Research and Development Division, E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., Inc., Wilmington, Delaware".