Title: Professor
Affiliation: California Institute of Technology
Quote: I have deep respect for the previous recipients of the Hume-Rothery Award, so it will be a deep honor to receive this award at the TMS annual meeting. I am a regular attendee of these meetings, where I never fail to learn something important from my forward-looking colleagues. My own interest is the entropy of materials, and how the major part of it comes from the vibrations of atoms. New experimental methods of inelastic scattering and the new power of ab initio calculations are now quantifying the individual components of entropy from atoms and electrons. I am optimistic that these new approaches to alloy thermodynamics will empower the next generation of TMS members to better understand and design new materials and devices.
Citation: For leadership in establishing the importance of vibrational entropy to the phase stability of alloys and for transformational advances in measurement techniques.
Other: "The Origin of Entropy in Materials"