Matthew Hunter
[1][2] He met his future wife Mary Pond in Europe, as a fellow student, and married after traveling to America.Because of the dangers of elemental sodium and the high temperatures and pressures involved, many of the experiments were done outside on the football field of the RPI campus.Hunter believed titanium might have a high melting point and would be able to replace the carbon filaments used in light bulbs at the time.It turned out titanium’s melting point was not high enough for application in light bulbs, but he discovered other useful properties of the metal.In 1959, Dr. Hunter received the Gold Medal of the American Society of Metals in recognition of a lifetime devoted to advancing metallurgical and engineering education.