William L. Johnson

Biography: Prof. Johnson is the Mettler Professor of materials science at the California Institute of Technology. He has been a member of the Caltech faculty since 1977. He has held the Ruben Mettler Chair in Engineering and Applied Science at Caltech since 1988. He was a visiting professor and Alexander von Humboldt Distinguished Fellow at the University of Goettingen, Germany in 1988. His research accomplishments include the first studies of superconductivity in metallic glasses, pioneering studies of crystal to glass transformations in metals and the discovery, characterization, and development of bulk amorphous metals as engineering materials. Prof. Johnson is a fellow of TMS and ASM International.

Prof. Johnson is an inventor on over 20 U.S. patents and the co-founder of a company, Liquidmetal Technologies Inc., which is currently pioneering the commercialization of bulk amorphous metals in engineering applications.