Walter R Hibbard, Jr

Dr. Walter R. Hibbard, Jr (January 20, 1918 – February 24, 2010) was an American metallurgist, a distinguished professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines in President Johnson's administration, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering elected in 1966 "for metallurgy". He also was director of the Virginia Center For Coal and Energy Research. The National Academy of Engineering said that Hibbard was "world renowned for his scholarship of metallurgy".