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Abstract
The opening presentation at the symposium '55 years of ferroelectrics' reflected on Eric Cross's early years in the UK, at the University of Leeds and subsequently at the Electrical Research Association. He worked first on barium titanate, in the mid 1940s a brand new material, and later on sodium niobate and the thermodynamic theory of ferroelectrics. So before he left for the USA to join the Materials Research Lab at Penn State, he had already begun to address a number of topics to which he would continue to return throughout his working life.