Quote: “My interest in the research on phase stability and the work and ideas of
Professor Hume-Rothery developed during my stay in the USA, as a post-doctoral
Fellow at the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh. Hume-Rothery’s ideas needed further
support and development, particularly in the physics of basic property measures, and
in the calculations of energy, starting from first principles. With several associates, I
devoted a major part of my research in Nagoya to this field. Particularly rewarding
has been the possibility of linking more closely the observed occurrence and structural
features of typical electron phases like the gamma-phase, and more recently the
stability of quasicrystals, and approximants, to their electronic band structure and
the concept of the Billouin zone. I am very happy that this work of mine has been
recognized by members of TMS as worthy of the prestigious Hume-Rothery award. I
am looking forward to presenting some of my most recent research at the TMS 2005
Annual Meeting.”
