TO: Friends and colleagues of Jim Lombardo FROM: Gary L. Bennett
This evening I spoke with Catherine Lombardo (Jim's wife) and Carol (Jim's daughter), learning that Jim had passed away on Saturday, 12 February. Carol sent me the obituary pasted below. Catherine Lombardo's address is 10816 Longmeadow Drive; Damascus, Maryland 20872-2241.
Submitted by john.fairbanks@... on Wed, 2011-01-05 18:19
We have lost one of the pioneers in Thermoelectrics. Norbert Elsner left us December 2, 2010. Norb was born and raised in Queens, New York. He graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in Metallurgical Engineering and later earned a Masters in Business Administration from Pepperdine University.
Submitted by Marat Vedernikov on Tue, 2010-05-04 10:09
Professor Evgeniy Konstantinovich Iordanishvili died January, 20, 2010 in St. Petersburg, Russia in the age 81. For thermoelectric community he is known first of all as a close collaborator of Professor A.F. Ioffe on the early stage of development of thermoelectric refrigerators in Institute of Semiconductors in St. Petersburg. He was a coauthor of the pioneer generalizing publication on this subject: A.F. Ioffe “Semiconductor thermoelements and thermoelectric cooling. Part 2: A.F. Ioffe, L.S. Stil’bans, E.K. Iordanishvili and T.S.
I learnt today of the death on May 10th of Ray Drabble after a short illness. Ray is best remembered in the thermoelectrics community for his work as the inspirational leader of the team that determined the band structure of bismuth telluride from galvanomagnetic measurements during the nineteen-fifties. Later he turned his attention to phonon conductivity and as Reader in the Physics Department at the University of Exeter did some exceptional work on the third-order elastic constants. He was a source of encouragement to his colleagues in the Solid Physics Group at the Hirst Research Cen
Deceased July, 20, 2010
We have lost one of the pioneers in Thermoelectrics. Norbert Elsner left us December 2, 2010. Norb was born and raised in Queens, New York. He graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in Metallurgical Engineering and later earned a Masters in Business Administration from Pepperdine University.
