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Acta Materialia Hollomon Materials & Society

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, Inc. Hollomon Award for Materials & Society recognizes demonstrated leadership in promoting the understanding of the relations and the interactions between materials technology and societal interests/needs or contributions to materials technology that have had major impact on society.

With this distinction Acta Materialia, Inc. not only intends to honor outstanding persons 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 Hollomon Award for Materials & Society consists of a 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 and Society Lecturer will be an automatic nominee.

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 established scientists
  • 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Nominations remain in effect for three years unless withdrawn or re-endorsed, with additional justification, for an additional two-year period.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, Inc. Hollomon Award for Materials & Society 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]), as a single file document preferably in PDF or Word format.

Acta Materialia, Inc.

Acta Materialia, Inc. (http://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.

Recipients of Acta Materialia Materials & Society Award (formerly the Hollomon Award), currently the Acta Materialia, Inc. Hollomon Award for Materials and Society

Acta Materialia Hollomon Materials & Society Award Recipients

2024

Iver E. Anderson

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2023

Charles Ward

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2022

Alexander Michaelis

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Germany

2021

Qingjie Zhang

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2020

Lynnette D. Madsen

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2019

Alexander H. King

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2018

Julie Christodoulou

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2017

Warren Poole

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2016

Julia Schoenung

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2015

Tresa Pollack

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2014

Karl A. Gschneidner, Jr.

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2013

Jeffrey Wadsworth

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2012

Millie Dresselhous

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2011

Alan Taub

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2010

Marc Meyers

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Brazil

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2007

Diran Apelian

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2009

Carolyn Hansson

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2008

Bhakta Rath

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2006

Praveen Chaudhari

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2005

Alton D. Romig, Jr.

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2004

Siegfried Hecker

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2003

Larry Hench

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2002

Craig Barrett

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2001

Mary L. Good

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1998

Masato Sagawa

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2000

William Bonfield

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1999

(No award made)

1997

Merton Flemings

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1996

Albert Westwood

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1995

Morris Cohen

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1994

Robert Fullman

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1993

Frederick Seitz

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1992

Robert Jaffee

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1991

Alan Cottrell

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1990

Cyril Smith

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