The US Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory Senior metallurgist, Iver Anderson, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Anderson is best known for his co-invention of lead-free solder, an alloy of tin, silver and copper, used globally as a replacement for lead-based solders that can pollute soil and groundwater. In addition to lead-free solder, Anderson has used gas-atomization technology he and his colleagues developed to produce fine, spherical titanium powder for additive manufacturing and metal injection molding of aerospace, medical and industrial parts.
Anderson will be inducted to NAI at a ceremony on April 15, 2016, at the US Patent and Trademark Office. The induction ceremony will be part of the Fifth Annual Conference of the National Academy of Inventors in Washington, D.C.