Recipient Diran Apelian

Citation: For seminal contributions to novel materials processing, materials characterization, microstructure/property relationships in advanced structural materials, and the promotion of computational materials science.

Biography: Diran Apelian is Howmet Professor of Engineering and director of the Metal Processing Institute (MPI) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he has worked for more than 15 years.

Dr. Apelian’s research interests and expertise are in materials processing and, specifically, in solidification and net-shape manufacturing

Recipient Clyde L. Briant

Citation: For his innovative work on grain boundary chemistry and its effects on intergranular fracture and intergranular corrosion in ferrous and refractory alloys.

Biography:Clyde L. Briant is dean of engineering and the Otis E. Randall University Professor at Brown University. His research has been in the area of structural materials, including steel and refractory metals.

He has also examined deformation behavior of titanium-based composites, hydrogen embrittlement of commercial purity titanium, and superplasticity of Al-Mg alloys. Dr. Briant is embarking on a new research area—the growth of skin cells on titanium.

Recipient Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf

Citation: For her development of a unified theory for plasticity from the point of view of dislocation behavior.

Biography: Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf is president and owner of Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf Motors and professor emeritus following more than 40 years as professor of physics and materials science at the University of Virginia.

Dr. Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf’s accomplishments include developing the comprehensive theory of the mechanical properties, work hardening, and annealing behavior up to recrystallization, of crystalline materials.