Robert Maddin, MSE, studies on metallic glasses, e.g. “A Method of Producing Solidified Filamentary Castings,” Transactions of the Metallurgical Society of AIME, 245 (1969), pp. 2475–2476.
Archives
Advances in Metallurgy
Campbell Laird, MSE, Fatigue studies in metals, e.g. ‘Cyclic stress-strain response of fcc metals and alloys Acta Met. 25, 10 1621 (1967)
Advances in Metallurgy
Charles McMahon, MSE, Embrittlement studies in iron e.g. ‘Initiation of cleavage in polycrystalline iron, Acta Met. 13, 6 591 (1965)
Breakthrough Prize in Physics
Gene Mele and Charles Kane, Physics, win the Breakthrough Prize in Physics for their pioneering work on ‘Topological Insulators.’
Continued Funding
The Penn MRSEC is funded for another 6 years (2017-2023, $22.6 Million), marking continuous funding of the LRSM for 63 years – starting in 1960!
Topological Insulators
Gene Mele and Charles Kane, Physics, predicted the ‘Quantum Spin Hall Effect’ and established the field of ‘Topological Insulators.’
Alan Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid, & Hideki Shirakawa win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Alan Jay Heeger, Professor of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, 1962-82, Director of the LRSM.
Alan Graham MacDiarmid, Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 1956-2007, Member of the LRSM
Hideki Shirakawa, Post-doctoral Fellow, Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania , with Alan MacDiarmid, 1976-79. Member of the LRSM.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000 was awarded jointly to Alan J. Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa “for the discovery and development of conductive polymers”.
Ahmed Zewail, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Ahmed Zewail was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy”.
He was a graduate student in chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. His adviser was Robin M. Hochstrasser, and was a student member of the LRSM from 1970-75.
MRLs End, MRSECs Begin
MRLs designated Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers, NSF-MRSECs
