A tribute to Eric Raymond (Lou) Vance: Ceramic materials physicist and nuclear wasteform expert-15(th) November, 1942-7(th) March, 2019

Abstract

This special issue of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society is a tribute to the life and work of Eric Raymond Vance. He was known to most of his friends and colleagues from his youth not as “Eric” or “Raymond” but “Lou” (taken from the name of his father “Albert Louis Vance”). His distinguished career perhaps began from his secondary school days at Stawell High School (now known as Stawell Secondary College), in the small town of Stawell, Victoria, Australia. Stawell is most well known for the annual “Stawell Gift”, a professional foot race which began in 1878 at the end of the gold rush in that area of Victoria, as the “Easter Gift” of £24 (several thousands in today's dollars) conduc..