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Martin Seah was a great friend and colleague of mine, and he made numerous important contributions to the field of applied surface science. I first met Martin early in his career. He started working at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, U.K. in 1969, following his graduation with a PhD in physics from the University of Bristol on July 9, 1969. I am not sure of the actual circumstances of our first meeting, but it would have been at a conference within a few years after his starting date. I worked in the United States from 1968 to 1970 and then moved to the Philips Research Laboratory in the Netherlands for 1971 and 1972. I attended several conferences in the United Kingdom during my time at Philips where I presented papers at the “Meeting on Clean Surfaces” at the University of Southampton in September 1971 (“Auger-Examination of Carbon at Metal and Semiconductor Surfaces”) and the “6th Thin Films Conference” at the University of York in April 1972 (“Chemical Effects in Auger Spectroscopy”). I also attended a conference at the University of Cambridge. I returned to the United States at the end of 1972 but honored a commitment I had made to give a paper at the “10th Annual Solid State Physics Conference,” which was held at the University of Manchester in January 1973 (“Chemical Effects in Auger Electron Spectroscopy”). I am sure it would have been one of these meetings in the United Kingdom where I first met Martin. Incidentally, at the “Meeting on Clean Surfaces,” the speakers were pronouncing Auger “AW-guh” like the drill, and it wasn't until I gave my talk that I explained it should be pronounced for the Frenchman, Pierre Auger. Over the years, I took many photographs of Martin, and I share some of them in this remembrance. One of my favorite pictures of Martin is in Photograph 1.