Terence G. Langdon

Citation: For his significant contribution to creep and superplasticity of structural materials and to the development of ultrafine-grained materials by severe plastic deformation.

Biography: Terence Langdon is the William E. Leonard Professor of Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). He is also professor of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, and Earth Sciences at USC and visiting professor at Kyushu University (Japan) and the University of Southampton (UK).

Prof. Langdon is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Institute of Materials, the American Ceramic Society, and ASM International. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK. He was awarded the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2003. He has published over 600 scientific papers. Currently, he is ranked second world-wide for publishing in materials science based on the number of citations received for papers published during the period 1993–2003.