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Education

Ph.D. 1966

Research Fellow Harvard Unversity 1966 - 1969

Visiting Scientist MIT 1969

D Sc University of Bochum, Germany 1970

Awards and Recognitions

2020 Honorary Doctor of Lanzhou University
2020 Researcher of the Year, Advanced Materials Letters
2019 2019 Laureate of the International Association of Advanced Materials
2018 Jan Czochralski Medal and Award, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw University,
2016 Friendship Award and Medal of Merit of Chinese Government, Jianzu, China
2015 Cothenius Medal of the German National Academy of Sciences - Leopoldina
2015 Honorary Doctor of the City University of Hong Kong
2014 2014 Distinguished Lecturer, University of Hong Kong
2012 Zijin Chair Professor Award of the Herbert Gleiter Institute of Nanoscience of the Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
2012 Nanomaterials Award 2012
2012 Edward DeMille Campbell Award, American Society for Metals (ASM)
2009 R.F. Mehl Award of the Minerals, Metals, Materials Society, USA
2009 Blaise Pascal Medal of the European Academy of Sciences, Belgium
2009 NANO Today Award of the Agency for Science, Technology Research, Singapore
2008 Honorary Doctor of the University of Muenster, Germany
2008 Honorary Doctor of the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland
2008 Achievement Award NANOSPD Int. Steering Committee
2008 Staudinger-Durrer Award of the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland
2008 Honorary Member of the German Materials Society DGM
2008 Von Hippel Award of the Materials Research Society, USA
2007 Gold Medal of Acta Materialia
2006 Humboldt Medal of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
2005 Distinguished Scholar of the Korean Research Foundation
2004 Honorary Professor of Lanzhou University, PR China
2004 H. Lee Lecture Award of Chinese Academy of Science
2004 Honorary Professor at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, PR China
2003 Nanomaterials Award of the Deutsche Bank, Germany
2002 Honorary Doctor of the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
2000 Van Horn Award of Case Western University Cleveland, USA
1999 Werner Heisenberg Medal of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
1998 Heyn Medal of the German Society for Materials Science
1995 Gold Medal of the Federation of European Material Societies (FEMS), Belgium
1993 Vinci of Excellence Award of the Hennessy-Vuitton Foundation, France
1993 Max-Planck-Research Prize of the Humboldt Foundation and the Max Planck-Society, Germany
1992 Member of the President’s Council of the University of Illinois, USA
1992 TMS Lecture Award of the US Minerals, Metals and Materials Society
1991 Order of Merit of Saarland, Germany
1988 Leibniz Prize of the German National Science Foundation (DFG)
1984 Alcoa Prize of the Alcoa Foundation, USA
1979 Karl-Schurz Award of the University of Wisconsin, USA
1972 Masing Prize of the German Society for Metals

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INAE Section Affiliated

VIII: Mining, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Year of Election to Fellowship

2007

Year of Birth

1938