Von Hippel Award Honors Prof. J.B. Goodenough
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Von Hippel Award Honore Prof. J.B. Goodenough In récognition of distinguished multidisciplinary research which has established the conceptual foundations qf the science ofsoiid state chemistry.... Prof. John B. Goodenough has been named récipient of the 1989 Von Hippel Award. The Von Hippel Award, the premier award of the Materials Research Society, will be presented to Prof. Goodenough during a ceremony to be held the evening of November 29, 1989, in Boston in conjunction with the 1989 MRS Fall Meeting. The Award honors his distinguished contributions to the field of solid state sciences, where his insights, ideas, knowledge and research hâve consistently drawn together the basic concepts of physics and chemistry in the conquest of wideranging fundamental topics. Through the years, his work can be said to hâve built the principal conceptual foundations bf the science of solid state chemistry. Prof. Goodenough has made pioneering contributions in many expérimental fields, including such diverse topics as development of ferrite-core random access memories, high pressure studies of perovskites, and the analysis of lithium ion conductivity in spinels. He has addressed the electroniç structure of complex materials, with concepts fundamental to chemical bonding. In the days before band structure calculations were routine, Prof. Goodenough succeeded in constructing, qualitatively, the band structures of most important semiconductors, oxides and metallic compounds. His 1963 book, Magnetism and the Chemical Bond, remains a classic référence in the field. A similar intuitive approach underlies Prof. Goodenough's classic analysis of superexchange mechanisms and of metalinsulator transitions. His work on Mort localization in oxides is of fundamental significance. Prof. Goodenough's research on the electronic structure of transition métal compounds has covered magneticexchange interactions, localized treatment of outer electronic, martensitic phase transformation mechanisms, and structure of ferroelectrics and bronzes. He has studied the electronic structure of metals based on the interactions of Fermi surfaces with Brillouin-zone surfaces in reciprocal space.
He recently investigated the électron pairing mechanism in high Tc superconductor structures. Prof. Goodenough has also made key contributions in materials for alternate energy technologies. Thèse include solid electrolytes, solid-solution storage-cell électrodes, photoelectrolysis of water with sunlight, wavelength-selective coatings for solar collectors, zeolites for air conditioning with solar energy, catalytic électrodes, and heterogeneous catalysis. Prof. Goodenough graduated from Yale University with a BA in mathematics in 1943, and obtained his PhD in physics at the University of Chicago in 1952. His research in electronic materials (chemistry) continued at the Lincoln Laboratory until his move in 1976 to the University of Oxford as professor and head of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory. In 1986 he accepted the Virginia H. Cockrell Centennial Chair of Engineeri
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