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Dr. Evan Serge Baltazzi, the Scientist and Athlete - and Nellie Despina Baltazzi - The Baltazzis are of a very old Venetian origin; their name is derived from the Venetian Baldo. The Baltazzi Coat of Arms can be found on page 94 of the [1]by Edgardo Mattei. It has been authenticated and registered by the Committee on Heraldry of the [2] on 6/1/1981. Evan is the direct descendant of the main branch of this family, which counts among others, Bernardo, Commander of the Venetian galleys against the Turks in 1573, Gian Battista, who was killed at the battle of Lepanto, Pietro, Secretary of the Republic of Venice, Marino eminent philosopher and theologian, and many others. Until the first half of the 15th century, the Baltazzis of the main branch were not "hellenized" and remained stout Catholics and 100 percent Venetians. It is only after the family was established in Crete, then left for Chios to escape Turkish oppression that they bacame Greek Orthodox. A work, including the genealogy of the Greek branch of the Baltazzis, was published in 1946 by Greek historian A. Benaki. Aristide Baltazzi donated Greek antiquities found on his property to the Louvre Museum (Paris). The Coat of Arms of the Prussian side of the family, von Pilgrim-Baltazzi, can be found in [3]; while the Gotha mentions the Ritter (Knight) von Baltazzi was the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Austro-Hungarian Empire before WWI, and the uncle of the tragic Baroness Maria Vetsera who died in Mayerling with her lover Archiduke Rudolf, heir to the throne. On the American side of the family, Captain Harry Warner Baltazzi U.S.N.(Ret.) died in 1972 at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, leaving three married daughters, but no son. He was the descendant of Xenophon Baltazzi, Consul General for the Ottoman Empire in New York who married an American lady and remainded in the United States (1836-1895). Evan's grandfather, George (1859-1919), married Despina Anagnostopoulou in Smyrna in 1886. They had two sons: Evanguelos (1888-1918), who died a bachelor in the U.S., and Evan's father, Phocion (1892-1963), who married Agnes Varda (1901-1994)in 1920. Phocion and Agnes had three sons and one daughter: Evanguelos (11 April 1921 Smyrna-29th June 2012 Ohio U.S.A), Helen (1923-1989,Athens), George (1926, Athens), and John (31th July 1930, Athens). The 200-year-old mansion where Evan was born is now a museum. During the catastrophe that befell Smyrna, George Warner Baltazzi was in command of a U.S. destroyer in the Aegean in 1922 and was able to find and save Evan's grand-uncle Theodore. Evan's maternal grandfather, Jean Varda, MD, was separated from his children and left under French protection on the warship "Jean Bart", while Evan's parents and paternal grandmother escaped on an Italian ship. Following a brief stay in Belgium and France, Phocion, a civil engineer, returned to Greece. Evan studied Chemistry at Athens University, joined the Greek Army during WWII, and served as a chemist for the International Red Cross Committee in Thessaloniki during the German occupation. There he met and married, on July 17, 1945, Despina (Nellie) Biorlaro, daughter of a Russian landowner refugee who had studied marine engineering in Genoa, Italy, and a Greek mother, Maria Stringo. They have three children, Agnes Vittoria (Paris, 1949- Ohio, March 2012), James Phillip (Oxford, 1954) and Maria Irene (Chicago, 1959). Evan and Nellie left for France on February 21, 1946, where Evan earned a Doctorat es Sciences Physiques (Sorbonne). While working for the French National Research Center, at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, he was sent in England in 1952 (D. Phil., Oxford, Chemistry, 1954). Following completion of his work at Oxford, Evan, at the recommendation of Sir Robert Robinson (Nobel Prize winner) won an assignment to the Canadian National Research Council (Ottawa) in 1955. His academic research involved synthesis of chemotherapeutic agents, natural products (penicillin precursors, porphyrins) and identification procedures via ultraviolet and infrared spectra. Evan accepted an offer by Alco Chemical Company of Chicago, Ill, and came to the United States, with Nellie, on March 29, 1959. On July 21, 1964, the Baltazzis became U.S. citizens. Evan was named [4] received the Distinguished Service Award (Science, 1965) and had several publications and patents to his credit. These include the patent on the first tabletop copier using organic photoconductors. He has organised and chaired several national and international conferences and symposium on Organic Photoconductors (Cleveland, 1974), the first Gordon Research Conference on the same topic (1976), and was a consulting engineer to major American, European, and Japanese (Toshiba) companies for ten consecutive years until his retirement in 1988. A fellow of the [5], [6], [7], and other learned societies, Evan served on the [8]: Highly trained in the fighting arts, Evan was a member of the fencing team of the Faculty of Sciences at the Sorbonne, and Captain of the Oxford University Judo team (1952-54). He and his team remained unbeaten, were awarded the colors, and Judo was recognised for the first time as a major varsity sport in Oxford. Evan served on the U.S. Olympic Judo and A.A.U. Committees for two Olympiads (1965/1974) and was an official at the [9]. He developed a system of general applicability to the combative arts and sports, which received international recognition. Evan published a book on this subject under the title [10]. He has also published articles in the [11], four books on the same topic, and chaired the. Nellie attended the French school, Calamari (Thessaloniki), and studied French Civilisation at the Sorbonne (Paris). She holds a B.A. and LL.B. (Chicago) and is active in civic societies, such as the International Training in Communication (ITC). She served as president of the ITC Great Lakes Council III. A member of the [12] and the [13](vice president, Nellie Cooley Unit). Nellie was the president of the [14](1994). She has taught Sunday School and was a Cub Scouts den mother. Nellie is an avid downhill skier, tennisplayer, and swimmer. Her oil paintings received a second place prize at a Montreal, P.Q., Canada, exposition.

EDUCATION University of Athens, Chemistry. University of Oxford, England, Doctor of Philosophy (Organic Reaction Mechanisms, IR Spectroscopy) 1954 University of Paris, France, Docteur ès Sciences Physiques, Grade d' Etat (U.V. Spectroscopy of Organic Molecules-Hétèrocycles), 1949 Has worked under Professor Jacques Tréfouël, Member of the French Academies of Sciences and Medecine, Nobel Prize winner and Professor Sir Robert Robinson, F.R.S., Nobel Prize winner.

WORK HISTORY Attaché de Recherches, French National Research Centre: 4 years Chargé de Recherches, French National Research Centre: 6 years Senior Group Leader, Organic and Polymer Synthesis, Nalco Chemical Co: 2 years Manager Organic and Analytical Chemistry Section, IITRI: 2 years Director Research Laboratory, A.M. International: 14 years President Consulting Consortium, Evanel Associates: 1977 - to present (2012) AWARDED HONORS AND OFFICES HELD'

Captain, Oxford University Judo Team 1953-1954, Colors British council Fellow, 1952-1954; Fellow, the Chemical Society (1954) NRC (Canada) Fellow, 1955-1956 New Citizen of the Year, 1964 Distinguished Service Award (Science) 1965 Chairman, Sports and Physical Education Methods Research Conferences, 1970-1971 Vice-president, American Institute of Chemists (Fellow) Chicago Chapter 1970-1971. Nominee and runner-up for President of the AIC, 1970 Chairman, AMA Research Management Seminar, 1970 Member Committee on Manpower Policy, ACS, 1973 Member of a 10-man Committee on U.S. Currency of the NAS/NRC, 1985-1986 Initiator and General Chairman, Summer Symposium on "Photoconductor Image Technology-Theory and Practice", sponsored by the S.P.S.E., Cleveland, 1974 Initiator and chairman of the first Gordon Research Conference on the "Chemistry and Physics of Photoconductive Molecules", 1976 General Chairman of the 30th S.P.S.E. Annual Conference, North Hollywood, 1977 Senior Member S.P.S.E., 1980 Chairman International Committee of the S.P.S.E 4th International Conference on Electrophotography - was instrumental in securing substantial foreign participation. Washington, D.C., 1981 Director, S.P.S.E. Cleveland Chapter, 1974-82; Electrophotography sessions Chairman Contributing Editor and reviewer, J. Imaging technology, 1980 - President, S.P.S.E. Cleveland Chapter, 1980-82. Member National AAU Judo Committee, 1966-1972 Chairman National YMCA Judo Committee, 1970-1972. Member U.S. Olympic Committee (Judo), 1966-1972. Judo Black Belt V (Godan), Aikido Black Black Belt V (Godan) Life Member U.S. Judo Association President and founder of the American Self-Protection Association, 1965. PUBLICATIONS 1."Sur l' absorption de certains hétèrocycles de la série naphthalènique (I)", Comptes rendus, Vol. 230, p. 2207, 1950. 2."Sur l' absorption de certains hétèrocycles de la série naphthalènique (II)", Comptes rendus, Vol. 231, p. 156, 1950. 3."Sur l' équilibre tautomèrique des nitrosonaphtols", Comptes rendus, Vol. 232, p. 987, 1951 4." Synthèse de certains hétèrocycles de la série naphthalènique", Comptes rendus, Vol. 233, p. 691, 1951. 5." Antipodes optiques du mannose et du sorbose comme source de carbone pour diverses bactéries", Comptes rendus, Vol. 233, p. 1696, 1951 6."Synthèse de certaines combinaisons hétèrocycliques de la série du naphtalène" Bulletin de la Société Chimique de France, p. 792, 1952. 7." Synthèse de dérives β-ménaphtyliques à partir de la tétraline", Bulletin de la Société Chimique de France, p. 167, 1953. 8."The Reduction of certain 2-Phenyl 4-Arylideneoxazolones by means of LiAIH4 (4 is in index)",Chemistry and Industry, p. 541, 1953 (with sir Robert Robinson). 9."The Reduction of 2-Phenyl 4-Isopropylideneoxazolones by means of LiAIH4 (4 is in index)", Chemistry and Industry, p. 868, 1953 (with sir Robert Robinson) 10."The preparation of certain Azlactones", Chemistry and Industry, p. 191, 1954 (with sir Robert Robinson). 11."The Chemistry of 5-oxazolones", Quarterly Reviews, Vol. IX, No. 2, 1955. 12."Synthèse de la dl-cystine", Comptes rendus, Vol. 240, p. 208, 1955 (with J.W. Davis) 13."A propos des deux formes géométriques de l' a-phenylacetamino-b-pipéridinoacrylate d' éthyle", Comptes rendus, Vol. 240, p. 1711, 1955. 14."A propos de l' action du diazoacétate d' éthyle sur le phénol", Comptes rendus, Vol. 241, p. 321, 1955. 15."Hydrazides de la série phenoxyacétique et dérives", Comptes rendus, Vol. 241 p. 663, 1955 (with R. Delavigne). 16."Uroporphyrin III", American Chemical Society Meeting at San Francisco, Spring, 1958, 87 N p. 148; The Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 82, p. 4389, (with E.J. Tarlton and F.S. MacDonald). 17."A propos d'une réaction de McFadyen-Stevens modifiée dans la série du pyrrole", Comptes rendus, Vol. 254, p.702, 1962. 18."Remarques sur certaines réactions des ylidéne-4-oxazolones-5", Comptes rendus, Vol. 254, p. 2375, 1962. 19."A propos de certaines réactions des alcools benzoylamino-2-allyliques", Comptes rendus, Vol. 254, p. 2375, 1962. 20."Cyclodehydrations with complexes of Sulfur Trioxide. Synthesis of Azlactones", Chemistry and Industry, p. 929, 1962 (with E.A. Davis). 21."Cyclodehydrations with Complexes of Sulfur Trioxide. Sunthesis of Butenolides", Chemistry and Industry, p. 1653, 1962 (with E.A. Davis). 22."Cyclodehydrations with Complexes of Sulfur Trioxide. Synthesis of 1,3,4-Oxadiazoles", Chemistry and Industry, p. 1080, 1963 (with A.Wsocki). 23."Substituted Phenoxyacetohydrazides as Reagents for Carbonyl Compounds", Comptes rendus, Vol. 256, p. 5159, 1963 (with J.W. Garner) 24."Organometals", Industrial Research, p. 40, March 1963. 25."Recent Advances in the Chemistry of Pyrrole", Chemical Reviews, Vol. 63, p. 511, 1063 (with L.I. Krimen). 26."A chemical Shorthnd", Frontier, Vol. 24, p.14, 1963. 27."Acrylic Polymers as Binders for Electrophotographic ZnO Coatings", Phot. Sc. and Eng. 16, No5, p. 354 (with R.G. Blanchette, and Ralph Minnis). 28."Some Aspects of the Structure-Reactivity Relationship in Aromatic Diazo-Compounds", (with E.E. Daily, H. Printy, P. Data and W. Warner)Phot. Sci. and Eng., Vol. 18, No 22, March/April 1974* 29."Benzocarbazole Polymers: A new class of organic photoconductors" Gordon Research Conferences, 1976, New Hampshire. 30."Novel Azlactones and Butenolides as Acceptors in Organic Photoreceptors", S.P.S.E Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, 1977*. 31."Cumulenes as Organic Photoconductive Pigments", IEEE/IAS Cleveland, 1979*. "A New Class of Pigmented Organic Photoreceptors", Chemistry and Industry, p.34, 1981. 32.Recent Developments in Electrophotographic Processes, Materials and Related Fields, J.A.P.E., Vol. 6, p. 147, 1980 (invited paper) 33.Recent Trends in Electrography and its Applications, id., Vol. 8, No.5 p. 224, 1982 (invited paper).

EXPLORATORY RESEARCH. This included superfast diazos, novel alkaline complexes for thermal diazo development, new toners, new surface treatments for magnetic carriers, new organic photoconductors for homogeneous electrophotographic systems, (poly-vinylcarbazole and benzocarbazole families), new photoconductors for heterogeneous electrophotographic systems, (cumulene family), new optical sensitizers for zinc oxide coatings, new binders for electrofax and for the new systems he developed, new acceptors (sensitizers) for photoconductors of the donor-acceptor type, new evaluation methods for photoconductive polymer precursors, polymerization methods for new photoconductive monomers, liquid development methods creating simultaneously a positive and a negative image, new electrostatic imaging processes, and three machine prototypes: one for reflex copying, one table-top copier, and one copier-duplicator, all based on organic photoconductors. APPLIED RESEARCH. This effort was aimed at improving the understanding of existing supplies and processes in order to upgrade them. It included troubleshooting involving raw and manufactured supplies, evaluation of raw materials, and extensive internal consulting. 34. Update on Electrophotography and its Applications, J. Imag. Techn. Vol. 10 No. 1, p. 11A-14A. 35. Outlook for the Copier Market in the U.S.A., J. Imag. Techn., Vol. 10, No 2, p. 30A-32A, 1984. 36. Technical Trends in Electrophotography and Related Fields, id., Vol. 10, No. 6, p. 120A-123A, 1984 37. Electrophotography, ibid., Vol. 11, No. 5, p. 6A, 7A and 12A, 1985 38. Electrophotography and Hard Copy Generation in 1985, ibid., Vol. 12, No. 2 1986. PATENTS
 * Note: Evan S. Baltazzi has been active in the field of reprography since 1963. Due to the policies of his former employer, AM International, the majority of materials and processes developed by him or under his direction are unpublished; some are even unpatented. During his employment with AM he was constently responsible for the following areas:

28 US and FOREIGN Patents (see list -OTHERS PENDING...Phebe Baltazzi (talk) 19:59, 30 June 2012 (UTC)). Baltazzi is one of the pioneers in the development and uses of organic photoconductors in Electrography. He holds the Patent on the first table-top copier using organic photoconductors. Organic photoconductors have largely displaced the use of toxic selenium PRESENTATIONS, SEMINARS, LECTURES

Taught courses in Organic and Polymer Chemistry, gave numerous graduate seminars and talks on technical topics. Was interviewed several times on TV in Chicago and Cleveland Was a contributing editor for Electrophotography, and on the review board of the Journal of Imaging Technology (till 12/31/1989). OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Published several articles on aspects of physical education and sports, mostly in the Journal of Physical Education. Also four books on related topics. 1.J. Phys. Ed. March-April 1968, p. 118 2.American Judoman, September-October 1969, p.10 3.J. Phy. Ed., March-April 1971, p. 89 4.id., January-February 1973, p. 47 5.ibid., July-August 1973, p. 137 6.Inside Kung-Fu, Vol.4, No. 4, p. 28, June 1977 7.id., No 5, p. 13, July 1977 8.ibid., No. 6, p. 32, August 1977 9.Super Banzai (Italy), December 1981, p. 25 10.id., January 1982, p. 48 11.ibid., February 1982, p. 30 12.ibid., March 1982, p. 36

BOOKS

1.Basic american Self-Protection, Evanel Associates, 1972; second printing, 1976; third printing 1982; fourth printing 1987. 2.Kickboxing. A Safe sport. A Deadly Defense, chas. E. Tuttle (Vermont); second printing, 1981, third printing 1984 3.Stickfighting for Men and Women, Chas. E. Tuttle (Tokyo, Japan), 1983 4.Self-Protection Complete. The A.S.P. System, Evanel 1992.