The Author

Ted Flanagan was a postdoctoral worker with Fred Lewis at Queen's University, Belfast, from 1957 to 1959; he had an enjoyable and productive time. The collaboration with Fred resulted in twelve papers in the area of H₂ absorption by Pd and its alloys. After that, Flanagan spent two years at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, and then joined the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, where he has remained. Flanagan's main interests have been in the area of metal, alloy and intermetallic-H systems. Following in the footsteps of his collaboration with Fred Lewis, his special interests have been Pd- and Pd alloy-H systems. Flanagan received his B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle. He subsequently received a Ph.D. honoris causa from Uppsala University (1992) for his research on H in Pd-based compounds such as Pd₆P. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Alloys and Compounds and the Materials Science Forum. Although he is now an Emeritus Professor, he has continued his research on metal-H systems.