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Acta Materialia Gold Medal

The deadline for nominations for all Acta Materialia and Acta Biomateriala awards is February 1st each year. For the Acta Materialia Silver medal and the Acta Biomaterialia Silver medal, the nominees must be 45 years or younger on December 31 the previous year.

The Acta Materialia Gold Medal recognizes demonstrated leadership in the field of Materials Science and Engineering. It rewards either

  • materials research that has had a significant and lasting impact on the development of the discipline, or
  • recent work of great originality.

With this distinction Acta Materialia, Inc. not only intends to honor outstanding contributions to the field but also to improve the awareness of the fundamental importance and diversity of materials research, both within the community and the public at large.

The Acta Materialia Gold Medal Award consists of a gold medal, an inscribed certificate, and a cash prize of US$ 10,000.

Candidates for this award may be proposed by any scientist/engineer/practitioner or any materials related society, previous Acta award recipients, Sponsoring or Cooperating Societies of Acta Materialia, Inc., and Editors of the Acta Materialia journals.

The nomination package should contain

  • Curriculum vitae
  • Statement by the nominator specifying the candidate’s suitability for the award**
  • Letters of support from up to three distinguished scientists in the field
  • Citation of not more than 30 words

**Please emphasize the nominee’s impact on their research field, rather than the metrics on their publications.

Nominations remain in effect for three years unless withdrawn or re-endorsed, with additional justification, for an additional two-year period. Current members of the Acta Materialia Board of Governors and of the Award Selection Committee are not eligible.

The Award Selection Committee is formed of five judges, themselves distinguished materials scientists.

The Acta Materialia Gold Medal is awarded each year, unless the judges feel no candidate is qualified. The presentation is made at a venue approved by the Acta Materialia Executive Committee. The Award will not be bestowed in absentia except in extraordinary circumstances.

Nominations should be submitted to the Executive Secretary (Prof. Carolyn Hansson, [email protected]), preferably as a single file document in PDF or Word format.

Acta Materialia, Inc.

Acta Materialia, Inc. (https://www.actamaterialia.org) is a non-profit organization representing 36 professional societies worldwide. It is dedicated to disseminating the knowledge of science and engineering of materials, primarily by publishing high quality journals covering all aspects of the multidisciplinary field of materials science and engineering, including biomaterials, nanomaterials, materials chemistry and physics. The corporation publishes four journals in collaboration with Elsevier: Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, Acta Biomaterialia, and Materialia.

Acta Materialia Gold Medal Award Recipients

2024

Kazuhiro Hono

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Japan

2023

Tresa Pollock

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2022

Dierk Raabe

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Germany

2021

Günter Gottstein

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Germany

2020

Enrique J. Lavernia

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2019

Ke Lu

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China

2018

Subhash Mahajan

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2017

John Jonas

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Canada

2016

Sungho Jin

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2015

David Embury

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Canada

2014

Robert O. Ritchie

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2013

Andre Pineau

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2012

Terence Langdon

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2011

Jay Narayan

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2010

Akihisa Inoue

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2009

Austin Chang

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2008

Karl Gschneidner

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2007

Herbert Gleiter

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2006

Subra Suresh

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2005

George D.W. Smith

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2004

Raymond Smallman

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2003

Gareth Thomas

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2002

Robert Cahn

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2001

Chain T. Liu

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2000

Anthony Kelly

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1999

Jean Philibert

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1998

Tsuyoshi Masumoto

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1997

Peter Hirsch

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1996

Vaclav Vitek

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1995

Thaddeus Massalski

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1994

Peter Haasen

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1993

William Nix

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1992

Jerome Cohen

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1991

Jun Kondo

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1990

James C.M. Li

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1989

John Hirth

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1987

Robert Balluffi

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1986

Michael Ashby

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1985

Egon Orowan

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1984

Jack Christian

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1983

Jacques Friedel

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1982

Charles Barrett

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1980

Hans Weertman

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1981

Morris Cohen

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1979

David Turnbull

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1978

Mats Hillert

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1977

John Cahn

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1976

Alan Cottrell

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1975

W.G. Burgers

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1974

Bruce Chalmers

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Note: In 1989 the nomenclature of the award was changed so that each year’s award is identified with the year of its presentation. Prior to this, the award was identified by the year in which the selection was made. As a result, there is no award identified with 1988.