Materials Pursuit Gathers Steam at the 1991 MRS Fall Meeting
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nology and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President, gave the plenary address. He described the federal government's current role in policy making, goal setting, funding, and collaborative research and development efforts in materials science. He looked at future needs in materials science, setting them in the context of broader U.S. science and technology goals. His plenary talk is published in this issue's Material Matters column. • \bn Hippel Address. In his Von Hippel Award presentation, Theodore Geballe of Stanford University asked "Why don't we have a room-temperature superconductor
(yet)?" He vividly traced the history of superconductors from A15 and cubic pervoskites to cuprate structures, fullerenes, and organic charge transfer salts. The search for a room-temperature superconductor, Geballe says, is somewhat like the extraterrestrial search; there are a lot of galaxies out there, just like there are many metastable compounds, and we certainly haven't exhausted them all. Geballe's presentation will appear in a future issue of the MRS Bulletin. See Editor's Choice in this issue for additional commentary on high-temperature superconductors. • Symposium X. This lunchtime session presented animated reviews for the nonspecialist on polymers, nanofabrication, ion/solid interaction, biomaterials, shapememory alloys, diamond films, plus presentations by the two MRS medalists, Shigeyuki Somiya (Nishi Tokyo University) on hydrothermal synthesis of ceramics and Bernard S. Meyerson (IBM) on Si-Ge high-speed heterojunction transistors. • Technical Sessions. For a glimpse of what went on in specific technical sessions, read the summaries published here. More detailed information is available in the published proceedings (listed elsewhere in this issue).
Graduate Student Award Winners at the 1991 MRS Fall Meeting. Front row, left to right: Ken Khachaturyan, University of California, Berkeley; Jiang Yue, Ohio State University; Brian L. Olmsted, University of Rochester. Second row, left to right: Jung-Chun Andrew Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Samuel P. Gido, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; George Stejic, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Christopher P. Burmester, University of California; Yasukazu Murakami, University of Tsukuba, Japan.
MRS BULLETIN/FEBRUARY 1992
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Materials Pursuit Gathers Steam at the 1991 MRS Fall Meeting
D. Allan Bromley (left), Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and OSTP Director, talks with 1991 MRS President Jim Roberto before Bromley's plenary address.
MRS Medalist Bernard S. Meyerson (right) of IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, accepts his award from 1991 MRS President Jim Roberto. Meyerson explained his work in a special presentat
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