ACerS Awards and Honors

Surmet Corp

By Deidre Haignere / May 14, 2013

  Surmet Corp for ALON® Optical Ceramic Development and Commercialization Surmet Corp wins this year’s corporate technical achievement award for its successful development and commercialization of optically transparent hard ceramic…

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Anil V. Virkar

By Deidre Haignere / May 14, 2013

  Anil V. Virkar is Distinguished Professor and H. Kent Bowen Endowed Chair of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. He received B.…

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Yoshio Sakka

By Deidre Haignere / May 14, 2013

Yoshio Sakka is a Managing Director of the Materials Processing Unit at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), and a Professor at the University of Tsukuba.  He received his…

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Kiyoshi Kobayashi

By Deidre Haignere / May 14, 2013

Kiyoshi Kobayashi is the principal researcher at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan. He received his PhD in materials science and engineering from Nagoya Institute of Technology…

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Larry L. Hench

By Deidre Haignere / May 14, 2013

  AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE? Role of Bio-Ceramic Technology, Socio-Economic and Ethical issues The late Dr. Larry Hench was University Professor, Biomedical Engineering Program, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, Professor and Director…

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William G. Fahrenholtz

By Deidre Haignere / May 14, 2013

William G. Fahrenholtz is Curators’ Professor of Ceramic Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, MO. Dr. Fahrenholtz earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Ceramic Engineering…

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Geoff Brennecka

By Deidre Haignere / May 9, 2013

Geoff Brennecka is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering and the Colorado Center for Advanced Ceramics at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. He…

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SCHOTT

By Deidre Haignere / May 9, 2013

SCHOTT won the Corporate Environmental Achievement Award for its sustainable manufacturing processes for CERAN® and PYRAN® Platinum glass-ceramics, which are produced without toxic heavy metals and with water and energy…

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Richard C. Bradt

By Deidre Haignere / May 9, 2013

Richard C. Bradt received his BS from MIT, then his MS and PhD from RPI after a period in industry. As an undergraduate at MIT he had Prof. Kingery as…

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Walter Kob

By Deidre Haignere / April 23, 2013

Walter Kob earned his diploma in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Universitat Basel, Switzerland in 1985 and his PhD in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics (magna cum laude), Universitat Basel in 1989…

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