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MRS Medal Award

Important Dates

• November 28, 2012 Award Presentation - 2012 MRS Fall Meeting
• January 01, 2013 Nomination Period Begins
• April 01, 2013 Nomination Deadline

About the Award

The MRS Medal recognizes an exceptional achievement in materials research in the past ten years. A Medal will be awarded for a major advance or cluster of closely related advances, in any materials-related field of research. The impact of this research on the progress of the relevant materials field will be a primary consideration in making the award.

Award Package

Each Medal will consist of a $5,000 cash prize, an engraved and mounted Medal, and a citation certificate. The registration fee will be paid for each Medalist to attend the MRS meeting at which the Medal talk is presented, and reasonable travel expenses to the MRS Meeting will be reimbursed.

Nomination Information

Nominations for the MRS Medal will be accepted from January 1 through April 1.  Rules and eligibility, nomination package requirements and more are available here.

Previous Awards Winners

• 2011 Peidong Yang, Zhong Lin (Z.L.) Wang, University of California, Berkeley and Georgia Institute of Technology
• 2010 Walter A. de Heer, Georgia Institute of Technology
• 2009 Gerbrand Ceder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 2008 Darrell G. Schlom, James F. Scott, Cornell University, Cambridge University
• 2007 Omar Yaghi, University of California, Los Angeles
• 2006 Pulickel Ajayan, Won Bong Choi, Mark Thompson, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, Florida International University, University of Southern California
• 2005 Reshef Tenne, Weizmann Institute
• 2004 Jacob Israelachvili, Toh-Ming Lu, Sunil Sinha, University of California, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of California, San Diego/Los Alamos National Laboratory
• 2003 C. Jeffrey Brinker, Ivan K. Schuller, Sandia National Laboratories/University of New Mexico, University of California, San Diego
• 2002 Dr. Charles M. Lieber, Dr. Uzi Landman, Harvard University, Georgia Institute of Technology
• 2001 C. Mathew Mate, Norman C. Bartelt, IBM Almaden Research Center, Sandia National Laboratories
• 2000 Dieter M. Gruen, Samuel I. Stupp, Argonne National Laboratory, Northwestern University
• 1999 M. George Craford, Stephen Forrest, Hewlett Packard, Princeton University
• 1998 William L. Johnson, California Institute of Technology
• 1997 Shuji Nakamura, Nichia Chemical Industries Ltd.
• 1996 Jerry D. Tersoff, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
• 1995 Federico Capasso, Rudolf M. Tromp, AT&T Bell Laboratories, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
• 1994 Max G. Lagally, Kenneth S. Suslick, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
• 1993 Wolfgang Kraätschmer, Donald R. Huffman, Max-Planck Institute, University of Arizona
• 1992 L. Eric Cross, Stephen J. Pennycook, Pennsylvania State University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• 1991 Bernard S. Meyerson, Shigeyuki Somiya, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Nishi Tokyo University
• 1990 Arthur J. Freeman, Duward F. Shriver, Northwestern University

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