Dr. George Castro was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.
He earned his BS in Chemistry from UCLA in 1960, and his Ph.D. in
Physical Chemistry from UC Riverside in 1965.
The contributions Dr. Castro has made to technology can be divided
into his personal contributions and the achievements of the groups he
has managed. The largest management responsibility was that of the
Manager of Physical Sciences of IBM San Jose Research Lab, from
1975 to 1986. Dr. Castro discovered the mechanism of the intrinsic
charge carrier generation of organic photoconductors. These were
introduced into electrophotographic copying machines and laser
printers by IBM in the early seventies and by Eastman Kodak in the
late seventies.
Dr. Castro built the IBM San Jose Research Lab into one that is
world famous for its many scientific discoveries. In the period 1975
to 1986, the department had over 3,000 scientific publications and
many of the scientists won major national and international awards.
In 1986, Dr. Castro undertook an assignment at IBM which involved
the construction of a synchrotron x-ray facility jointly with a
consortium of faculty from Stanford University. In a two-year period,
from 1991 to 1993, he brought the X-Ray Characterization facilities
at IBM up to state-of-the-art capability.
All of this success has brought Dr. Castro many honors. Included in
those honors are "Outstanding Chicano in Santa Clara County",
Fellow of the American Physical Society, "Portraits of Success
Award", and the "Martin Luther King Jr. Good Neighbor Award".
Dr. Castro and his wife Beatrice, are the parents of four successful
children, all of whom have at least a bachelor's degree. | 
