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Von Hippel studied electrophysics at the University of Goettingen, which granted him a PhD in 1924. After a decade of teaching and research in Europe he joined the MIT faculty in 1936. It was in his lab that the example of scientists working cooperatively to solve the mysteries of materials from the atomic to the microstructural level first challenged the parochialism that had prevailed before and demonstrated the utility of the interdisciplinary approach which the Materials Research Society fosters and embodies. The second recipient of the prize, in 1978, was W. O. Baker, president of Bell Telephone Laboratories. Baker joined Bell Labs in 1939, having received his PhD in physical chemistry from Princeton the previous year. First as member of the technical staff and subsequently in various leadership positions, he studied solid state materials and macromolecules, dielectric and dynamic mechanical properties of crystals and glasses, information processing technology, and plastics, fibers and natural and synthetic rubbers. In addition to his research, Baker has devoted himself to numerous civic, governmental and scientific committees and commissions. In 1957 Washington University, where he had done his undergraduate work, awarded him its honorary Doctor of Science degree. At least 17 other institutions of higher education have presented him with similar awards. David Turnbull, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard, was the Von Hippel Award recipient in 1979. A physical chemist by training, Turnbull's research has encompassed a broad range: thermionic emission, thermodynamic properties of gases at high pressures, corrosion in non-aqueous media, diffusion in metals, kinetics of nucleation in solid state transformation, solidification, theory of liquid and glass. Turnbull received his PhD from the University of Illinois in 1939. He began his career at Case Institute of Technology, then joined the research laboratory of the General Electric Company in 1946, where he remained until he joined the Harvard faculty in 1962.
W. Conyers Herring, 1980 recipient of the prize, is professor of applied physics at Stanford University. He has had a seminal influence on materials science and solid state physics, contributing to the understanding of solid state surfaces that underpins the field of crystal growth, sintering and plastic flow at high temperatures. Together with J. K. Gait he realized and demonstrated that whiskers of high crystalline perfection would exhibit extraordinary mechanical properties. Herring received his PhD from Princeton in physics in 1937. He taught at MIT, Princeton and the University of Missouri, and from 1941 to 1945 was a member of the War Research staff at Columbia University. He joined Stanford in 1936 after 30 years at Bell Laboratories. James W. Mayer, the Society's 1981 honoree, is Francis Norwood Bard Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University. Mayer has had a profound influence on the development of modern materials science with particular emphasis on semic
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