Nick Grant high-temperature alloys at MIT

Tom's teacher in creep and high-temperature materials. Cited as one of the developers of the early superalloys whose graduates went to Pratt & Whitney and GE. ## Figures referenced (not cases)

Every 50 degrees here is two billion dollars a year in fuel savings for the airlines. So there's a lot of impetus to come up with better alloys. But we've sort of hit a brick wall. Back in the 1950s, Nick Grant — he was a professor here, he's the one who taught me creep and high-temperature materials when I was a student. He was one of the guys helping to develop these alloys. They're graduates of this department, or assistant professors who went off to [Pratt &] Whitney or General Electric and developed these alloys. But they sort of ran out of steam, literally.