Robert C. O'Handley, a former research scientist in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE), died on Saturday, March 9. He was 70.
In 1981, O'Handley came to MIT as a research scientist working with Professor Nick Grant on applications of metallic glasses. Prior to MIT, he was an NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Michelson Laboratory in China Lake, Calif., from 1971–74, then worked for four years at Allied Chemical Corporation on its amorphous metals development program, and then moved to IBM’s Watson Lab for a three-year position as staff scientist.
O'Handley's primary research focus at MIT was ferromagnetism and applications of ferromagnetic materials. In addition to ferromagnetic metallic glasses, his work focused on surface and thin-film magnetism, magnetic thin-film devices, active materials, and applications of materials in energy absorption and energy harvesting. O'Handley’s research projects engaged an impressive number of faculty colleagues as collaborators, including Grant, Keith Johnson, Gretchen Kalonji, Manny Oiveria, Carl Thompson, Sam Allen, Caroline Ross, Yet-Ming Chiang, David Paul, Steve Hall and Jagadeesh Moodera.
O'Handley's academic background was in physics: After receiving a BA from Marist College in 1965, he taught for two years as a Marist Brother in a New York City high school and then changed his career plan, completing an MS and PhD at the Polytechnic University (formerly the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn). His publications include nearly 200 articles in refereed journals, 20 patents, scores of conference proceedings, invited lectures and review articles. He is the author of the textbook, "Modern Magnetic Materials: Principles and Applications" (Wiley, 1999), an outgrowth of the graduate class, 3.45 Magnetic Materials, that O'Handley developed and taught alternate years from 1990 to 2008.
He contributed to DMSE’s educational programs through classroom and laboratory teaching and research supervision of undergraduate and graduate students. Many visitors, including three Fulbright Scholars, were hosted in his laboratory over the years. O'Handley retired from MIT in 2008, at which time he continued an active research role at Ferro Solutions — a wireless power transfer, sensors and energy harvester company he co-founded in 2002 — while dedicating his energy to his family and to studying classical piano.
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