Recipient: 2002 Bruce Chalmers Award

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society's Bruce Chalmers Award was established in 1989 by the Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division of TMS and is named for Bruce Chalmers, widely acknowledged as the father of modern solidification science. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of solidification science.

Michel Rappaz

Citation: "For his outstanding contributions to the numerical modeling of microstructures coupled with macroscopic models of heat and mass transport in modern solidification processing."

Biography: Michel Rappaz is a professor and head of numerical simulation group at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in the Laboratory of Physical Metallurgy. He earned an M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in 1973 and 1978, respectively. He has authored approximately 200 publications and has been honored with the TMS Mathewson Award twice, in 1994 and 1997.

Quote: “Looking at the list of renowned recipients of the Bruce Chalmers Award, I am greatly honored to receive this very high distinction. I view it as a professional recognition of the scientific activity carried out in my group over the past seventeen years in the area of solidification and solidification modeling. In addition to the Ph.D. students, post-doctoral fellows, and senior scientists who have greatly contributed to receive this award, I would like to thank two persons in particular: Prof. W. Kurz, a previous recipient of this award who pulled me into this field and always encouraged me, and Prof. J. Rappaz, my single and mathematician brother, who introduced me to numerical methods and closely collaborated with me.”

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