2023
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FMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award
Candan Tamerler -
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- Title: Spahr Professor
- Affiliation: University of Kansas, Lawrence, KC
- Quote: I am deeply honored and humbled to receive this prestigious award. TMS has been my society, so much so that I hardly missed any meetings! I am grateful to the Award Committee, my colleagues, and especially for my research team and students.
- Citation: For her outstanding contributions for integrating biological mechanisms into biomimetic design of multifunctional hybrid materials.
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2022
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FMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award
Roger Narayan -
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- Title: Distinguished Professor
- Affiliation: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
- Quote: TMS has provided me with an opportunity to interact with my colleagues in academia, government, and industry over the past two decades. These interactions have had a significant influence on my choice of research activities and the progression of my career.
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2021
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FMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award
Michael Manley -
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- Title: Senior Researcher
- Affiliation: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
- Quote: I am thrilled and honored to receive this award. I was first introduced to TMS as a graduate student in 1997 and have remained involved ever since. The connections and friendships forged through TMS have played a vital role in my career. I am enthusiastic about engaging in TMS activities for many years to come.
- Citation: For experimental research on thermophysical properties of materials at high temperatures, and the discovery of intrinsic localized modes in anharmonic materials
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2020
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FMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award
C. Robert Kao -
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- Title: Professor
- Affiliation: National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Quote: I am much honored to receive the FMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award. I attended my first TMS meeting as a graduate student in 1993 and have been a loyal FMD member since its EMPMD days. To receive this award is so very humbling. Nowadays, I attend TMS meetings every year, always accompanied by several students of mine. I want my students to experience the same professional growth I have gained through my activities with TMS. I’m truly grateful to the Society for everything and for this award.
- Citation: For his distinguished career in materials research involving metallurgical reactions in electronic packaging, service to TMS and the electronics industry and academic leadership in Taiwan.
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2019
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FMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award
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2018
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FMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award
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2017
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FMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award
Sinn-wen Chen -
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- Title: Professor
- Affiliation: National Tsing Hua University, Hsin-chu, Taiwan
- Quote: It is a great honor to receive this award. TMS was my first professional society, its annual meeting was my first professional meeting, and I have been a TMS member and attending TMS annual meetings without interruption for 28 years. I would like to thank TMS and I look forward to many more years as a member.
- Citation: For his contributions on phase diagram experimental determinations and investigations of electric current effects upon interfacial reactions in the Pb-free solder related multi-component alloy systems.
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2016
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FMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award
Nikhilesh Chawla -
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- Title: Professor
- Affiliation: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
- Citation: For outstanding research, scholarship, and teaching in the field of solders, specifically in developing novel techniques for characterization and modeling the mechanical behavior of lead-free solders.
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2016
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FMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award
Vincent Harris -
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- Title: Distinguished Professor and W.L. Smith Chair Professor
- Affiliation: Northeastern University, Boston, MA
- Quote: It is my great honor to be recognized by TMS, the FMD, and my peers for this distinguished award. Membership in TMS has always been a source of great pride for me. Not only does the annual meeting provide aforum to broadly disseminate timely research advances, but also it provides a means to nurture professional relationships and establish lifelong friendships. An important aspect is the opportunity for both young and mature scientists and engineers to interact and communicate knowledge and advances.
- Citation: For his outstanding contribution to the understanding and application of magnetic ferrites and radio frequency microwave materials.
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2015
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FMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award
Kannan Krishnan -
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- Title: Chair Professor
- Affiliation: University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Quote: I am honored to receive the FMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer award and am pleased to see myself in the august company of the past awardees, many of whose work I have followed and admired over the years. I also share this recognition with my current and former students, postdocs and researchers whose creativity and hard work is reflected in my own accomplishments. I look forward to many more years of active involvement with TMS.
- Citation: For seminal contributions to science, technology, and biomedical applications of magnetic materials.
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2014
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FMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award
Michael McHenry -
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- Title: Professor
- Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
- Quote: I am very grateful to receive the 2014 TMS EMPMD DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST/ENGINEER AWARD. It has been a pleasure for me to participate in many TMS forums and events over the years. I am pleased to be recognized by my peers.
- Citation: For his outstanding contributions to fundamental understanding of magnetic and superconducting materials and their applications.
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2013
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FMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award
Mark Asta -
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- Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley, CA
- Citation: For his pioneering use of atomistic simulation to understand thermodynamics, kinetics, and phase equilibria in materials
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2012
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FMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award
KN Mani Subramanian -
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- Affiliation: Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
- Quote: I am extremely thankful and feel honored by this award bestowed by my peers and TMS. The dedication and collaborative efforts of the researchers involved in various activities of EMPMD trying to arrive at solutions to technical problems have been great inspirations to me. Although I have been active in several committees, organizing symposia under their sponsorships and presenting papers. During my 47 years of membership in TMS, my involvement in EMPMD for the last 16 years has been the most memorable and rewarding.
- Citation: For contributions in understanding of mechanical deformation, fatigue, creep, and electromigration of metallic, ceramic materials, and Pb-free solder joints in microelectronic applications.
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2011
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FMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award
Long-Qing Chen -
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- Title: Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
- Affiliation: Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
- Quote: “I am humbled and honored to receive the 2011 TMS EMPMD distinguished scientist/engineer award. I have been very closely tied with TMS for almost 20 years. I have made many friends and learned a lot of new ideas at various TMS meetings and gatherings. They have had a huge impact on my career and the research directions that I pursue. This award would have not been possible without the strong friendship and enthusiastic support from the colleagues/friends at TMS. I am looking forward to continuous association with TMS for the rest of my career.”
- Citation: For his broad sustained impact on computational materials science in general and the modeling of phase transitions, domain structures, and electrical/mechanical/magnetic coupling in nanoferroelectronics and multiferroics in particular.
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2010
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FMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award
Brent Fultz -
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- Title: Professor
- Affiliation: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
- Quote: “TMS meetings have been a home for me since my days as a graduate student, consistently offering a stimulating environment for the exchange of new ideas. Over the years, my TMS colleagues and friends were some of the best for discussing ideas about the vibrational entropy of materials, and studies of entropy by inelastic scattering methods. These discussions helped me optimize the research that is recognized by this award.”
- Citation: For his outstanding contribution to fundamental understanding of thermodynamics in materials using inelastic neutron scattering.
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2009
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FMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award
David Laughlin -
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- Title: ALCOA professor of Physical Metallurgy
- Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
- Quote: “I am honored to be chosen for this award. I have attempted to integrate classical physical metallurgy principles into the study of magnetic materials. I am happy that my efforts have been recognized and trust that my research and teaching will continue to be fruitful.”
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2008
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FMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award
Iver Anderson -
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- Title: Senior Metallurgist
- Affiliation: Ames Lab at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
- Citation: For his innovative ideas, his excellent research, his continuing scholarship, and the influence he has had on the transition to lead-free manufacturing.
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2007
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FMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award
King-Ning Tu -
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- Title: Professor
- Affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- Other: Symposium Title: Advances in Metallizations and Interconnect Technologies, in honor of Professor K.N. Tu
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