When I started my graudate studies in 1956, I worked with stainless steels in chloride solutions. I seem, sometimes, still to be doing the same thing. For years I never thought of corrosion of anything else but metals—especially stainless steels—in acid and chloride solutions.
One of my tasks as a teacher is to be concerned with the generality of ideas, abstractions, similarities, and metaphors. Another of my tasks is to build Corrosion Journal into a broader perspective and to attract both more interest and readers. A third one of my obligations is to look to the future, knowing that ideas take time to develop and knowing that I as well as others should be stimulating the work which will lay the basis for future developments. Certainly, I am not the only person who accepts such implied responsibilities, but I do believe that they should be accepted by people who teach...
