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Recipient: 2002 William Hume-Rothery Award



The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society's William Hume-Rothery Award was established in 1972 by the Institute of Metals Division of TMS and recognizes outstanding scholarly contributions to the science of alloys. The award includes an invitation to the recipient to be the honored lecturer at the William Hume-Rothery Memorial Symposium during the TMS Annual Meeting.
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Larry Kaufman

Lecture Title: “Calphad Thermodynamics”

Biography: Larry Kaufman is a lecturer and consultant in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Kaufman earned a B. Met. Eng. from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1952 and a Sc.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1955. He recieved the William Hume-Rothery Award of the Institute of Metals – London in 1996.

 

Quote:“This award has special meaning for me because of the personal relationship I had with Professor William Hume-Rothery. I was the Institute of Metals – London Hume-Rothery awardee in 1996. As a student I studied his book Atomic Theory for Students of Metallurgy. I first met him in 1960 when I chaired an AIME meeting on Phase Equilibria at which Hume-Rothery presented a paper. We corresponded for 6 years until we met again in Geneva at the Battelle conference on Phase Stability of Metals and Alloys. He invited me to write a review for Progress in Materials Science, which he edited (published 1969, vol. 14, pp. 55-96). This collaboration led to more correspondence, which is recounted in N. Saunders and A.P. Miodownik CALPHAD Pergamon/ Elsevier (1998) pp. 9-15. We were in the midst of an extensive correspondence when Hume-Rothery passed away suddenly in 1968.”


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