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Awards On Wednesday, December 4, 6:00 p.m. at the Sheraton Boston Grand Ballroom, the Von Hippel, Turnbull Lecturer, MRS Medal and Graduate Student Awards will be presented during the Award Ceremony, which will be followed by a reception. Von Hippel Award Turnbull Lecturer Awards MRS Medals
The Materials Research Society's highest honor, the Von Hippel Award, is conferred annually to an individual in recognition of the recipient's outstanding contributions to interdisciplinary research on materials.  Howard K. Birnbaum University of Illinois Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 6:00 p.m. Sheraton Hotel, Grand Ballroom "Hydrogen Effects on Deformation and FractureThe Science
and Sociology" Howard K. Birnbaum attended Columbia University (BS, 1953, and MS, 1955), then studied with Professor Tom Read at the University of Illinois (PhD in metallurgy, 1958). He taught at the University of Chicago as an instructor and then as an assistant professor in the Institute for the Study of Metals. In 1961, he returned to the University of Illinois as an associate professor and was promoted to a full professor in 1963. His tenure at the University of Chicago Institute of Metals (the first interdisciplinary materials laboratory) and the University of Illinois' Materials Research Laboratory taught him the great promise of the interdisciplinary approach to research. After teaching in the field of materials science, he became the Director of the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory in 1987 and served in that capacity until 1999. Birnbaum retired to an Emeritus status in 1999. Birnbaum's career, spanning the period in which the several fields of science and engineering coalesced into the new field of materials science, was devoted to teaching, research, and the support of interdisciplinary materials science. He worked with about 40 PhD graduate students and 20 research associates in a number of research areas including defects in solids, deformation and fracture, hydrogen diffusion, and hydrogen behavior in materials and is the author of many publications in these fields. Recognition for his work includes membership in the National Academy
of Engineering, fellowship status in the American Physical Society, The
Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, American Society of Metals,
National Academy of Arts and Sciences, and American Association for the
Advancement of Science.
The Turnbull Lecturer Award recognizes the career of a scientist who has made outstanding contributions to understanding materials phenomena and properties through research, writing, and lecturing, as exemplified by David Turnbull.  Robert W. Cahn University of Cambridge Monday, December 2,12:45 p.m. Sheraton Hotel, Grand Ballroom "Metallurgists and Materials Scientists: Scope for Skepticism?" My address says it all... metallurgy and materials sciences, having begun
as closely linked categories, have begun to drift apart, and that trend
is dangerous. I will examine that drift in the light of various published
assertions. The subdivisions which are inescapable in any living discipline
need not, however, be formulated in terms of types of material; they can
instead be set out in terms of phenomena and processes which are common
to more than one material type, and that way of looking at things is indeed
vital for the health of materials science. I will conclude by re-examining
my often-repeated claim that microstructure is a crucial concept that
distinguishes materials science, including the study of metals and alloys,
from its neighbor disciplines. Robert W. Cahn obtained his MA, PhD and ScD degrees from Cambridge University; since 1986, he has held the position of Honorary Distinguished Research Fellow in Cambridge¢s Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy. He has held teaching and research posts at universities and institutions in the United Kingdom, France, and the United States. His research work in physical metallurgy has been published in over 200 research and review publications, and he still produces three to four papers annually. Cahn has traveled to 24 countries to undertake small research projects and assess scientific institutions, as well as to attend, lecture at, and help to organize conferences. Cahn's presentation will address what he regards as a dangerous trend--metallurgy and materials science, having begun as closely linked categories, drifting apart. He asserts that the subdivisions which are inescapable in any living discipline need not be formulated in terms of types of material; instead, they can be set out in terms of phenomena and processes which are common to more than one material type. He has written many articles for scientific magazines, and has been a materials science correspondent for Nature since 1967. One hundred of his articles were compiled into a book, Artifice and Artefacts, and published by the (British) Institute of Physics in 1992. His book on the history of materials science, The Coming of Materials Science, was published in 2001. Cahn is a member of FIM, FInstP, FRSA, and Academia Europaea; a Fellow of the Royal Society, TMS (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society), and ASM (American Society of Metals. He is a foreign member of the Gottingen Academy, the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Indian National Science Academy. Recent awards include the Luigi Losana Gold Medal (2001), the Acta Materialia Gold Medal (2002), and the MRS David Turnbull Lecturer (2002). Since 1997, when he was a visiting scientist to the MRS Bulletin, Cahn
has continued to be involved with the Materials Research Society in various
capacities, including Volume organizer and member of the book review board.
The MRS Medal is awarded for a specific outstanding recent discovery or advancement which has a major impact on the progress of a materials-related field. "Nanowires
as Building Blocks for Nanoscale Science and Technology- At Harvard, Lieber has pioneered the synthesis of a broad range of nanoscale materials, the characterization of the unique physical properties of these materials, and the development of methods of hierarchical assembly of nanoscale wires, together with the demonstration of applications of these materials in nanoelectronics, biological sensing, and nanophotonics. Lieber has also developed and applied a new chemically sensitive microscopy for probing organic and biological materials at nanometer-to-molecular scales. This work has been recognized by a number of awards, including the Feynman Award in Nanotechnology, ACS Pure Chemistry Award, and NSF Creativity Award. Lieber is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He serves on the editorial and advisory boards of a number of science and technology journals. Lieber has published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and is the principle inventor on more than 15 patents. Recently, Lieber founded a nanotechnology company, NanoSys, Inc., with the modest goal of revolutionizing commercial applications in chemical and biological sensing, computing, photonics, and information storage.
The MRS Medal is awarded for a specific outstanding recent discovery or advancement which has a major impact on the progress of a materials-related field.
"Small is Different: Hard and Soft Nanotribological Junctions" Topics will include: (i) Atomic-scale friction, and formation
mechanisms, mechanical response, and quantized conductance properties
of metal and semiconductor nanowire junctions; (ii) Nanotribological
processes in lubricated junctions, dynamics and rheological properties
of highly confined complex fluids, and control of friction through molecular
architectural modifications, surface patterning, or imposed fluctuations:
(iii) Generation, stability and breakup of nanojets. Uzi Landman obtained a BSc degree from the Hebrew University, MSc degree from the Weizmann Institute of Science and DSc degree from the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion). He then worked at the University of California-Santa Barbara, the University of Illinois at Urbana, the Xerox research laboratories at Webster, New York, and the University of Rochester in New York, mainly in surface science and statistical mechanics. In 1977, Landman joined the School of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is currently a Regents' and Institute Professor, holding the Callaway Chair and serving as the director of a Center for Computational Materials Science. His main areas of scientific interest are in condensed matter physics, materials science, clusters, chemical physics, and biophysics, with an emphasis on the development and use of computational methodologies. He has published over 300 articles in these areas, and for over a decade focused his studies on a broad range of nanoscale phenomena. Landman's contributions deepened our insights into the microscopic origins of physical and chemical phenomena in systems of basic and technological significance, focusing on the size-dependent evolution of materials properties. He contributed significantly to the conceptual and practical development of classical and quantum simulation and modeling methodologies, playing a key role in transforming them into widely used "computational microscopies" of predictive power. His investigations have had far-reaching impact on both experiments and theory in diverse fields, ranging from surface science, catalysis, microscopic hydrodynamics, and nanotribology to clusters, nanostructures, and charge transport in DNA. He served as Associate Dean for Research of the College of Science at Georgia Tech, and as the president of the Georgia Autistic Society. Landman founded the Journal of Computational Materials Science. He has been honored with several awards, including the 2000 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology. Most recently, he presented a plenary lecture at the Nobel Symposium on the Physics and Chemistry of Clusters.
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