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Recipient: 2004 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.
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John Campbell

Citation: "For his outstanding scientific work on filling and solidification of castings and contributions to the understanding of the role of oxides in casting quality."

Biography: John Campbell has been a professor of casting technology at the University of Birmingham since 1989. He is also the vice president of technology at Alotech and the non-executive director of Westley Group Plc. He has been named fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Materials, and the Institute of Cast Metals Engineers. He is a chartered engineer and has received The Queen’s New Year Honours Award, Order of the British Empire, and the Merton C. Flemings Award for scientific contribution to casting technology.

He has published approximately 150 papers on liquid metals, solidification, and casting technology; approximately 20 patents; and the book Castings. He is the originator of the Cosworth Casting Process, licensed by Ford of America for the production of automotive aluminum blocks.


Quote: “Academics and casters alike have been reluctant to take on board the concepts I have sought to introduce (e.g., the mechanical properties of the casting being controlled by the way the metal flows in to the mold, and the concept of the liquid metal as a slurry of crack-like defects). The recognition that the Bruce Chalmers Award represents will be a welcome promotion of a new paradigm that promises to be both fruitful for scientific research and for the technology of production of castings.”

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