Recipients of the Acta Materialia Gold Medal Award
To learn more about honors and awards offered by TMS, please visit the TMS Honors and Awards page.
1974 to Present
2007
Herbert Gleiter
Germany
2006
Subra Suresh
United States
2005
George D.W. Smith
United Kingdom
2004
Raymond Smallman
United Kingdom
2003
Gareth Thomas
United States
2002
Robert W. Cahn
United Kingdom
2001
Chain T. Liu
United States
2000
Tony Kelly
United Kingdom
1999
Jean Philibert
France
1998
Tsuyoshi Masumoto
Japan
1997
Peter Hirsch
United Kingdom
1996
Vaclav Vitek
United States
1995
Thaddeus B. Massalski
United States
1994
Peter Haasen
Germany
1993
William D. Nix
United States
1992
Jerome B. Cohen
United States
1991
Jun Kondo
Japan
1990
James C.M. Li
United States
1989
John P. Hirth
United States
1987
Robert W. Balluffi
United States
1986
Michael Ashby
United Kingdom
1985
Egon Orowan
United States
1984
John W. Christian
United Kingdom
1983
Jacques Friedel
France
1982
Charles Barrett
United States
1981
Morris Cohen
United States
1980
Johannes Weertman
United States
1979
David Turnbull
United States
1978
Mats Hillert
Sweden
1977
John Cahn
United States
1976
Alan Cottrell
United States
1975
W.G. Burgers
Holland
1974
Bruce Chalmers
United Kingdom
Note: In 1989 the nomenclature of the award was changed so that each years' award is identified with the year of its' presentation. Prior to this, the award was identified by the year in which the selection was made. As a result, there is no award identified with 1988.
The information on this page is maintained by Nellie Luther (natale@tms.org).
