News of MRS Members/Materials Researchers
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News of MRS Members/Materials Researchers Suhas Bhandarkar has joined the faculty of the School of Ceramic Engineering and Materials Science at Alfred University as an associate professor of materials
science. He will be part of the university’s Advanced Research Center in photonics. He comes to Alfred from Sydney, Australia, where he directed research and
Gareth Thomas Thomas Receives Receives 2003 2003 Acta Acta Materialia Materialia Gold Gold Medal Medal Gareth
The 2003 2003 Acta Acta Materialia Materialia Gold Gold Medal Medal has has been been award award to to The Gareth Thomas, professor professor at at the the University University of of California, California, Gareth Thomas, Berkeley, and vice vice president president of of research research and and development development at at Berkeley, and MMFX Technologies Corp. Corp. in in Irvine, Irvine, Calif. Calif. Thomas’ Thomas’ lifetime lifetime MMFX Technologies in to to understanding the the fundamenin research researchhas hasbeen beendevoted devoted understanding fundatals of structure-property relations in materials, forfor which he mentals of structure-property relations in materials, which has alsoalso pioneered the the development and and applications of eleche has pioneered development applications of tron microscopy and and microanalysis. He established the first electron microscopy microanalysis. He established the laboratory for for high-voltage electron at UC— UC— first laboratory high-voltage electronmicroscopy microscopy at Berkeley. Thomas’ research research has has contributed contributed to to the the developdevelopBerkeley. Thomas’ ment and microstructural microstructural tailoring tailoring of of materials materials from from steels steels ment and Gareth Thomas and aluminum alloys alloys to to high-temperature high-temperature and and functional functional and aluminum ceramicsand andmagnetic magneticmaterials, materials,resulting resultingin inaadozen dozenpatents. patents. ceramics In recognition recognition of of these these achievements, achievements, Thomas Thomas was was elected elected to to both both the the National National In Academy of of Sciences Sciences (1983) (1983) and and the the National National Academy Academy of of Engineering Engineering (1982). (1982). With With Academy his students students and and colleagues, colleagues, Thomas Thomas has has over over 500 500 publications publications and and several several books, books, his including the the first first text text on on Transmission Transmission Electron Electron Microscopy Microscopy of of Metals Metals (Wiley(Wileyincluding Interscience,New NewYork, York,1962) 1962)and, and,in in1979—with 1979—withM.J. M.J.Goringe—a Goringe—awidely widelyused usedreferreferInterscience, ence text, text, Transmission Transmission Electron Electron Microscopy Microscopy ofof Materials Materials (TechBooks, (TechBooks, Fairfax, Fairfax, second second ence editionin in1981), 1981),which whichwas wastranslated translatedinto intoRussian Russianand andChinese. Chinese. edition The
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