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Dr.
Baney joined
Dow Corning in 1959 and worked in various positions in the
research of silicon containing materials. For most of his career,
he focused on new venture activities for Dow Corning. He started a
major ceramic effort at Dow Corning. He was also one of the key
persons responsible for a new thrust by Dow Corning into
dielectric materials. From 1992 until his retirement from Dow
Corning at the end of 1996, he held the position of senior
research scientist for Dow Corning's Asian area. He was assistant
research director at the Japan Research Center, Dow Corning Asia.
In that position he initiated a global new research thrust into
network silicone materials and held the title of global expertise
center leader of rigid materials.
Dr. Baney was honored by being
selected for the first Dow Corning industrial sabbatical leave at
Cambridge University with professor E. Ebsworth in 1965-1966. He
was also selected to fill the position at Nagoya University with
professor S. Hirano as an honored visiting industrial scientist in
1985-1986. In that Position Dr. Baney gave a graduate course on
Ceramics. In 1981 Dr. Baney received the Midland section American
Chemical Society best paper award. As part of a polymer short
course sponsered by the American Chemical Society, Dr. Baney was
invited to deliver lectures on Preceramic Polymers.
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