Memories of the Early Days of BaTiO3

From Murata Mfg. Co., Ed., ”Kyoui no Chitabari”, Maruzen Publishing Co., Tokyo, Japan (1990) (ISBN 4 – 621 – 03439 – 1)

In this chapter, we trace some of the early history of ferroelectric ceramics in the Western world and present first-hand accounts of this period written by Helen Megaw, William Cook Jr., Nello Coda, and Wilhelm Buessem. These four pioneers were involved with different aspects of discovery of perovskite ferroelectrics in the United States and Western Europe.