The William Wurth Kriegel Papers contain notebooks and reprints of articles related to Kriegel's research on ceramic engineering, circa 1939-1964.
William Wurth Kriegel (1907-1980), a native of Seattle, Washington, joined the faculty of the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University) in 1939, after receiving his doctorate in ceramic engineering from the Technische Hochschule in Hanover, Germany. An authority on the mechanical properties of ceramic materials, he was head of the ceramic engineering program at N.C. State beginning in 1946, and retired in 1971.
A native of Seattle, Washington, William Wurth Kriegel was born 1907 December 4. He received two B.S. degrees from the University of Washington--civil engineering in 1929 and ceramic engineering in 1932. He obtained his M.S. in ceramic engineering from the Montana School of Mines in 1936, and after receiving his doctorate from the Technische Hochschule in Hannover, Germany, in 1939, Kriegel joined the faculty of the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University) as an instructor. Subsequently assistant (1940) and associate (1941) professor, he became a full professor and head of the ceramic engineering program in 1946.
An authority on the mechanical properties of ceramic materials, Kriegel was a charter member of Keramos, the professional ceramic engineering fraternity, and a fellow in the American Ceramic Society. He helped found the University Conference on Ceramic Science, and served as a consultant to several private companies and governmental agencies, including the Atomic Energy Commission's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the U.S. Army's Office of Ordnance Research. Kriegel retired in 1971 after 32 years on the N.C. State faculty, and died in Seattle in 1980 May.
The William Wurth Kriegel Papers contain materials related to Kriegel's research on ceramics--notebooks, 1939-1949; reprints of articles authored and coauthored by Kriegel that appeared in the Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 1949 and 1964; and laboratory notes in German, circa 1939.
This collection is arranged chronologically.
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[Identification of item], William Wurth Kriegel Papers, MC 00151, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
Transfered from North Carolina State University Materials Engineering Department, 1981 January 5.
Processed by Jennifer McElroy, 2006 September
Encoded by Will Andersen, 2007 December
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[Identification of item], William Wurth Kriegel Papers, MC 00151, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
The NC State University Libraries generally claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. Libraries staff are unable to advise on copyright and other legal matters; the user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Helpful resources for assessing copyright include Cornell Libraries' "Copyright Services: Copyright Term and the Public Domain" and copyright.gov. This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information about identifiable living individuals, which may be protected under federal or state laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that there may be legal ramifications for disclosing this information.
The University Archives operates in accordance with the State Public Records Act, with unrestricted access to records not covered by state and federal statutes and regulations.