TMS Presents Its Awards for 2002

During its annual meeting in Seattle, Washington, this past Febru ary, the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society presented this year’s awards.

John M. Poate, vice president and chief technology officer of Axcelis Technologies in Beverly, Massachusetts, received the John Bardeen Award. He was cited for “the development of ion beam techniques for the analysis and modification of new surface properties of several classes of electronic materials.”

The Bruce Chalmers Award went to Michel Rappaz, professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Rappaz was recognized for his “outstanding contribution to the numerical modeling of microstructures coupled with macroscopic models of heat and mass transport in modern solidification processing.”

Frans Spaepen, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard University, received the Institute of Metals Lecture & Robert Franklin Mehl Award. The award recognizes an “outstanding scientific leader who is selected to present a lecture at the annual meeting.” His talk was entitled “The Structure of Liquids and Solid-Liquid Interfaces.”

The recipients of the Champion H. Mathewson Award were Man H. Yoo and C. L. Fu for their paper entitled “Physical Constants, Deformation Twinning, and Microcracking in Titanium Aluminides” in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions. The award is given to “the author(s) of a paper considered the most notable contribution to metallurgical science.” Both are research staff members at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.