Distinguished Service Award

2004 DIVISION OF POLYMERIC MATERIALS: SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD

The recipient of the 2004 ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) Distinguished Service Award is Dr. Ray Dickie. Ray Dickie has long been an active member of the Polymeric Materials Division, and over the years has served as a member of the Division's Executive Committee in positions from Member-at-Large to Chair; he is now a Councilor for the Division and a member of its Long Range Planning Committee. Ray has also served as General Secretary of the Macromolecular Secretariat and Councilor for the Detroit Local Section. As Councilor, he has been a member of the Committee on Constitution and Bylaws and the Committee on Committees. He has chaired the Gordon Research Conference on the Science of Adhesion and the 21st Annual Meeting of the Adhesion Society, and recently completed a term as President of the Adhesion Society.

Ray Dickie is a graduate of the University of North Dakota (B.S.Chem) and the University of Wisconsin (Ph.D., physical chemistry). He was a post-doctoral research fellow at Glasgow University and worked at Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) before joining the Ford Motor Company Scientific Research Laboratories. He retired from Ford as Corporate Technical Specialist in 1999. He currently serves as Editor of Journal of Coatings Technology (a publication of the Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology).

Most of Ray's technical career was spent on the Research Staff of Ford Motor Company where his research interests centered on automotive paints and adhesives and related areas of polymer science. Specific technical contributions during his career at Ford included new approaches to a wide range of automotive coatings (corrosion resistant primers, water-based topcoats, electron beam cure coatings) and fundamental investigations of coating adhesion and degradation mechanisms. He championed the use of structural adhesive bonding for automotive body construction. Key to these contributions was application of physico-chemical principles to practical materials and manufacturing processes.

Ray Dickie has over 100 publications including four edited books, and has been awarded 42 U.S. patents. His research awards include the Roy W. Tess Award in Coatings from the ACS Division of Polymeric Materials, the Thomas Midgley Award of the ACS Detroit Local Section, and the Joseph J. Mattiello Award of the Federation of Societies of Coatings Technologies. He received the Distinguished Service Award from the ACS Detroit Local Section and was a member of the first class of Fellows of Division of Polymeric Materials.

Past recipients of the Distinguished Service Award include:

1993	Roy W. Tess
1994	E. E. McSweeney
1995	Louis J. Nowacki
1996	Kenneth N. Edwards
1999	Clara D. Craver
2000	Sandy Labana
2001	John Lupinski
2002	Charles E. Carraher
2003	Theodore Provder
2004	Ray Dickie

Past Distinguished Service Award Winners

2001 Service Award Winner

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