Paul André Albert (April 14, 1926 – October 26, 2019) was an American metallurgist. In the 1970s and 1980s, he helped to develop the class of doped cobalt-chrome alloys still in use in the manufacture of computer hard disks.[1]

Albert was born in Van Buren, Maine, to Doctor Armand Albert and Marie Lussier Albert, and was a direct descendant of Canadian pioneer Pierre Boucher. Albert earned a BS in physics from the University of Maine and an ScD in Metallurgy from New York University. During his career at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and then at IBM in Poughkeepsie, New York, in Essex Junction, Vermont, and in San Jose, Albert co-authored several other patents on the production of anisotropic magnetic films and the means of recording and reading data in them.[2][3][4] Albert also contributed to early work on high-density perpendicular recording.[5][6]

After retiring from IBM in 1982, Albert helped to develop research alloys for disk drive manufacturers such as IBM, Western Digital and Seagate. In 1985, Albert Consulting was incorporated and began arc melting PVD research alloys under the name ACI Alloys. During the 1990s, researchers at ACI Alloys expanded to other thin film markets by developing techniques for the casting of sputtering targets made of fully reacted transition metal alloys such as Gallium Nickel[7] and Germanium Antimony Telluride[8] as well as high-purity arc-cast precious metal targets and evaporation (deposition) materials.[9]

Albert died on October 26, 2019, at the age of 93.[10]

Albert was survived by his wife, Jeanne (Kachmar) Albert, whom he married in 1955, and his eight children.

References

  1. ↑ B.J.Langland and P.A.Albert, Recording on Perpendicular Anisotropy Media with Ring Heads, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. MAG-17, No.6, November 1981.
  2. ↑ P.A.Albert and C.R.Guarnieri, Influence of biased magnetron deposition parameters on amorphous Gd–Co–Cu properties, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology 14, 138 (1977)
  3. ↑ N.D. HEIMAN, R.D.WHITE, R.I.POTTER and P.A. ALBERT, US Patent Publication number US4271232 A: A magnetic material of amorphous iron-nitride and a method for preparing the same are provided
  4. ↑ P.A.ALBERT and T.J.KENNEDY, app 4,219,853, "Read/Write Thin Film Head", IBM TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE BULLETIN, vol. 25, no. 3, May 1981.
  5. ↑ P.A. ALBERT "Method of forming a Probe-Type Head for vertical Recording" pages 5097-5098, IBM TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE BULLETIN,vol. 23, no. 11, April 1981.
  6. ↑ P. A. ALBERT and B. J. LANGLAND; Magnetic Recording Properties of CoCrTa Vertical Recording Media, IBM internal document (1981).
  7. ↑ S. Bellavia, Collider Accelerator Procedures Manual, BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LAB, 2018.
  8. ↑ F. XIONG, A. LIAO, and E. POP, Inducing chalcogenide phase change with ultra-narrow carbon nanotube heaters, APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 95, 243103, 2009.
  9. ↑ A. Aleman, C. Li, H Zaid, Ultrahigh vacuum dc magnetron sputter-deposition of epitaxial Pd(111)-Al2O3(0001) thin films, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology, May 2018
  10. ↑ "Paul Andre Albert Obituary (1926 - 2019) Mercury News".
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