Professional of the Year for 2008 in Electrochemical Technology: Lubomyr T. Romankiw, Ph.D.

	Lubomyr T. Romankiw, Ph.D.
Industry	Computers and communications
Title	IBM Fellow/ Chief Scout of Plast-Scout Movement in Ukraine and Diaspora
Expertise	Electrochemical technology, micro fabrication, magnetics
Current Organization	IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Type of Organization	Research and development
Major Product	Computers and electronic components
Area of Distribution	International
University/Degree	B.Sc., Chemical Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada, 1955; M.Sc., Ph.D., Metallurgy and Materials, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1962
Born	April 17, 1931, Lviv, Western Ukraine
Honors & Awards	Numerous including the Perkin Gold Medal of the Society of Chemical Industries, 1993
Published Works	57 patents, 120+ published inventions, 150+ scientific papers (including "Thirty Years of Thin Film Magnetic Heads for the Hard Disk Drives," J. Magn. Soc. Japan, Vol. 24, pp. 1-4, 2000 and "Think Small-One Day It May Be Worth A Billion" Interface (Electrochemical Society), pp. 17-20, 56-57, 1993), 5 book chapters, edited 10 volumes of symposia proceedings in the areas of Magnetic Materials, Processes and Devices and Electrochemistry in Electronics
Affiliations	Electrochemical Society; ISE; ECS; AESF; IEEE; SPIE; Shevchenko Scientific Society; Ukrainian Engineering Society; Engineering Academy of Ukraine
Hobbies & Sports	Boy Scouts, fundraising, violin, singing
Career Accomplishments	Dr. Romankiw started the Scout movement for boys and girls in the Ukraine after Ukraine gained independence in 1991. The Scout organization is raising new Western oriented citizens to integrate into the Western world. As Chief Scout, Dr. Romankiw is actively working not only to bring the Ukrainian youth in the world of Scouting traditions of God and country, help to others, and obeying Scout laws and leadership, but is engaged in fundraising to support Scouts in Ukraine via the Plast Conference, Inc.-Chief Scout Fund, a USA nonprofit, tax exempt 501(c)(3) organization whose address is: P.O. Box 303, Southfield, NY 10975
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