Awards

The E-MRS Award program strives to acknowledge outstanding contributors to the progress of materials research, and to recognize their exciting and profound accomplishments.

We seek to honor those whose work has already had a major impact in the field, and those young researchers whose work already leads to great expectations for future leadership.

Graduate Student Award

E-MRS Graduate Student Awards are intended to honor and encourage graduate students whose academic achievements and current materials research display a high level of excellence and distinction. E-MRS seeks to recognize students of exceptional ability who show promise for significant future achievement in materials research.

Awards are presented at the Plenary Session during the week of the Spring meeting. The prizes consist of a 450 EUR cash prize accompanied with a diploma.

Download the Graduate Student Award 2013 application form:

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2012 Graduate Student Award Winners:  GSA2012 25.34 Kb

2011 Graduate Student Award Winners:  GSA2011 39.66 Kb

EU-40 Materials Prize

The European Materials Research Society launched in 2011 a new scientific award for scientists under 40.
This E-MRS award is given to recognize outstanding contributions to materials research by a scientist under 40.

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	2011 winner: Andrea C. Ferrari Cambridge University, U.K.
2012 winners (ex-aequo):  Molly M. Stevens  Imperial College, U.K.	Francesco Stellacci  EPFL, Switzerland

Czochralski Award

Professor Jan Czochralski is one of the most famous Polish scientists. One of his most important discoveries was the technology for growing single crystals, now known as the Czochraski Method. It was discovered in 1916 when he found that after dipping a pen into a small crucible of molten aluminium and withdrawing it, a thread of aluminium hangs from the nib. Careful investigations had shown that this was a single crystal and so the Czochralski Method for single crystal growth was born. The method is used for example for the growth of the single crystals of Germanium and Silicon which are the basis of a vast range of modern electronic equipment and devices.

Taking into account the merits of Czochralski for materials science, technology transfer to industry, and international colaboration, E-MRS established an award in the name of Jan Czochralski.

To date the following recipients have been honoured:
- Professor Dr Walter HEYWANG, formerly Director of Research of Siemens,
- Professor Dr Boris PATON, the long term President of the Ukraine National Academy of Science,
- Prof. Thaddeus B. MASSALSKI from Carnegie Mellon University,
- Prof. Shuji NAKAMURA from University of California and Prof. Kurt Heinz Juergen BUSCHOW from University of Amsterdam.
- Prof. Hermann GRIMMEISS from University of Lund.
- Prof. Mildred DRESSELHAUS from MIT, USA
- Prof. Federico CAPASSO from Harvard University, USA
- Prof. Anthony M. GLAZER from Clarendon Laboratory, U.K.
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E-MRS Anniversary Award

The E-MRS Anniversary Award recognizes the career contribution of a scientist to fundamental understanding of the science of materials through experimental and/or theoretical research.

20th Anniversary Award (2003):
Richard FRIEND, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
"Plastic electronics"

25th Anniversary Award (2008):
Dan SHECHTMAN Technion, Haifa, Israel and ISU, Ames, Iowa, USA
"Quasi-periodic Materials – Crystal Redefined"

30th Anniversary Award (2013):
Sir John PENDRY Centre for Plasmonics & Metamaterials
The Blackett Lab, Imperial College, London
"Metamaterials open new horizons in electromagnetism"