Recipient: 1999 John Bardeen Award

Lionel Kimerling

Biography: Lionel Kimerling is Thomas Lord Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and director of the Materials Processing Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned his S.B. in metallurgy and his Ph.D. in materials science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965 and 1969, respectively. He was a member of the technical staff at ATT Bell Laboratories from 1972 to 1981, at which time he became head of the Materials Physics Research Department at ATT Bell Laboratories. He joined the staff of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990. He has also served as a lecturer at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Technion University, Israel.

Dr. Kimerling was the 1994 president of TMS and a past director of the TMS Electronic, Magnetic, & Photonic Materials Division. He is a member of the TMS Foundation Board of Trustees. He has received several honors, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society.