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ABOUT HECKMAN ASSOCIATES Heckman Associates is a scientific consulting service, established in 1973 and headed by F. A. Heckman, Proprietor. Heckman Associates is well qualified to provide consulting services to the Industrial and Educational Communities in the following technical areas:

• Transmission Electron Microscopy - TEM • Video Microscopy • Analytical Centrifugation

• Optical Microscopy - OM • Automated Image Analysis • X-ray Diffraction - XRD

Heckman Associates is one of the very few sources of independent, truly expert counsel in the highly specialized field of carbon black morphology and microstructure characterization, carbon black analytical techniques, and the evaluation of carbon black dispersion and microdispersion in rubbers and plastics.

ABOUT F. A. HECKMAN F. A. Heckman has had a distinguished career covering some forty years, gaining extensive hands-on experience with each of the above techniques and fields of specialization. He has worked at the National Bureau of Standards, the U. S. Department of Agriculture, W. R. Grace & Co., and most recently, he has retired from Cabot Corp. after twenty-six years of service. During his stay at Cabot, he gained experience in Nitrogen Adsorption, Scanning Electron Microscopy - SEM and a variety of other analytical techniques. He has received international recognition for his contributions to the understanding of Carbon Black morphology and microstructure, having pioneered the application of Analytical Centrifugation to morphology problems. He has acquired a reputation as a problem solver in his area of expertise. He is considered to be a good speaker with something to say. He has had experience in virtually every conceivable form of public speaking (including video tapes), having been invited to give technical talks on a variety of subjects in the U.S. and five foreign countries on four continents. He has a flair for writing, being the author or co-author of more than twenty scientific papers on such subjects as Portland Cement, Dairy Products, Rubber and Carbon Black. He is considered by his colleagues to be a good teacher, with a gift for presenting difficult subjects and ideas in a simple, straightforward manner. Mr. Heckman has been active in the professional societies closely related to his work. He was a leader in founding the New England Society for Electron Microscopy, having been elected its first president in 1967 and having been reelected to that office in 1975, and again in 1990. He was recently elected to life-time honorary membership in the Society. He was also active in ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) where he served as Secretary, and later, as Chairman of the Carbon Black Microscopy Committee, a subcommittee of D-24 Committee on Carbon Black. Also, he served on the ASTM D-24 Editorial Committee. During his full-time career, he was a member of the Electron Microscopy Society of America - EMSA (serving as Local Arrangements Chairman for the 1971 Boston meeting), the American Institute of Physics - AIP and the Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society - ACS. In 1994, EMSA changed its name to the Microscopy Society of America - MSA, and in 1996, NESEM changed its name to The New England Society for Microscopy - NESM. In addition to his technical accomplishments and affiliations, Mr. Heckman has been an active participant in important church and community activities. Most notably, he serves as a Church Elder and he served in elected office on the North Reading School Committee for seven years, one year as chairman. He also served on the Citizens' Scholarship Foundation Board, the School Accreditation Committee, and as chairman of the Town School Library Study Committee. Heckman Associates will be glad to serve in any capacity consistent with our fields of expertise. F.A. Heckman, for Heckman Associates (E mail - [email protected])