Richard and Patricia Spriggs Phase Award

A. Michael Glazer

By Deidre Haignere / May 19, 2015

Mike Glazer is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and Visiting Professor at the University of Warwick. He became interested in crystals at the age of 7,…

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Hiroko Yokota

By Deidre Haignere / May 19, 2015

Hiroko Yokota is an Assistant Professor at Chiba University, Japan. She graduated from Waseda University, Japan with a Bachelors of Science degree in Physics, then continued her studies and obtained…

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Nan Zhang

By Deidre Haignere / May 19, 2015

Nan Zhang is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada. She received her B.Sc. in 2005 from Nanjing University in physics and her DPhil in…

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Baojun Zhao

By Deidre Haignere / May 7, 2014

Baojun Zhao is Fangyuan Fellow and group leader of high temperature process at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He received his B.Sc. in 1986 and M.Sc. in 1989 from…

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Mao Chen

By Deidre Haignere / May 7, 2014

Mao Chen is currently working as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Queensland (UQ). He received his B.E. degree in Chemical Engineering and…

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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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Richard and Patricia Spriggs Phase Equilibria Award

By Eileen De Guire / March 12, 2013

The Spriggs Phase Equilibria Award shall be given to the author or authors who, in the judgment of the award committee, made the most valuable contribution to phase stability relationships in ceramic-based systems literature during the calendar year prior to the selection. For the purposes of this award, a phase equilibria article is defined as a paper, article, or report published in a technical or trade journal, or in a bulletin from a school, laboratory, technical bureau, or experimental station, or in a pamphlet or book form. It must be complete and readily available to the public.

2018 Award Winners
Kang Yan, Minxia Fang, Xiaobing Ren, and Shuai Ren
“Crucial role of octahedral untilting R3m/P4mm morphotropic phase
boundary in highly piezoelectric perovskite oxide”
Acta Materialia , 134 (2017) 195-202

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