H. Eugene Stanley Selected for 1998 David Turnbull Lectureship for Contributions to Phase Transitions and Critical Pheno
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H. Eugene Stanley Selected for 1998 David Turnbull Lectureship for Contributions to Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena As an educator and scientific pioneer whose work over the past 35 years has opened subfields of materials research, H. Eugene Stanley of Boston University has been selected to deliver the 1998 David Turnbull Lecture. He is cited for "his insights into the statistical aspects of materials phenomena including phase transitions, pattern formation, and disordered, granular, and soft materials, and for his outstanding lecturing and writing on these topics." The David Turnbull Lectureship recognizes the career of a scientist who has made outstanding contributions to understanding materials phenomena and properties through research, writing, and lecturing, as exemplified by David Turnbull. The classic book, Introduction to Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena (Oxford
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of polymer materials since it became posUniversity Press), which Stanley wrote sible to treat polymers by taking Stanley's from 1968 to 1970, has educated a genera- model to the « —> 0 limit. tion of physicists worldwide. It won the Setting Stanley apart from many theo1971 Choice award for the best academic rists is his collaboration with expert experibook of that year and has been translated mentalists, as is exemplified in his work on into many languages, including Russian glasslike phases of metastable water. In a and Japanese. His other key publications series of papers starting in 1992, Stanley in materials research include Biomedical and his students have proposed the twoPhysics and Biomaterials Science (MIT critical-point hypothesis, which helped iniPress), Disordered Materials and Interfacestiate a new field of research known as liq(Materials Research Society), and Fractal uid polyamorphism. The experimentally Concepts in Surface Growth (Cambridge observed phase transition between lowUniversity Press) which is said to provide density amorphous (LDA) ice and highan overview of some of the most impordensity amorphous (HDA) ice is the structant developments in application of turally arrested manifestation of an underdynamic scaling concepts to surface lying equilibrium liquid-liquid transition growth. between two distinct forms of liquid water. In the March 12, 1998 issue of Nature, In his studies of magnetism, started Stanley and O. Mishima in Japan pubduring his graduate studies, Stanley, with lished experiments probing the new lowT.A. Kaplan at Harvard University, protemperature domain of the phase diagram posed a novel phase transition in the twoof water. Stanley's work in this area, dimensional XY and Heisenberg models accomplished over nearly two decades, as having a critical point without the has far-reaching implications in various appearance of long-range order, which fields, including materials science and the was a revolutionary concept in the late technology of low-temperature preserva1960s. The 1967 Stanley-Kaplan phase tion of biological molecules. transition stimulated the development of the s
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