IAS Senior Fellow Professor Herbert Gleiter receives the 2018 Czochralski Award

8 August 2018

Professor Herbert Gleiter, IAS Senior Fellow, has been honored the 2018 Czochralski Award from the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS). The award recognizes the achievements of Professor Gleiter in the field of Advanced Materials Science.

Professor Gleiter is the Founding Director of the "Herbert Gleiter Institute of Nanoscience" at Nanjing University of Science and Technology and the Distinguished Senior Professor and Academician at the Institute für Nanotechnology at KIT Karlsruhe in Germany.

In 1989, Professor Gleiter initiated the development of new class of noncrystalline solids, the nano-glasses. The present work of Professor Gleiter focuses on the application of nanotechnology to probe limits of Quantum Physics in systems of macroscopic size.

Professor Gleiter has received more than 40 prizes/awards throughout his career, including the Leibniz and Max Planck Prize as well as four honorary doctorates and several honorary professorships. He is a member of 10 National Academies as well as an Honorary Member of several professional societies.

About Czochralski Award

The award is named for Professor Jan Czochralski, a famous Polish scientist known for his discovery of the technology for growing single crystals, now known as the Czochralski Method. Taking into account the merits of Czochralski for materials science, technology transfer to industry, and international collaboration, the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) established an award in recognition of his contributions.

Past recipients of the Jan Czochralski Award included:

2005 - Professor Walter HEYWANG, formerly Director of Research of Siemens
2006 - Professor Boris PATON, the long term President of the Ukraine National Academy of Science
2007 - Professor Thaddeus B. MASSALSKI from Carnegie Mellon University
2008 - Professor Shuji NAKAMURA from University of California and Prof. Kurt Heinz Juergen BUSCHOW from University of Amsterdam
2009 - Professor Hermann GRIMMEISS from University of Lund
2010 - Professor Mildred DRESSELHAUS from MIT, USA
2011 - Professor Federico CAPASSO from Harvard University, USA
2012 - Professor Anthony M. GLAZER from Clarendon Laboratory, U.K
2013 - Professor Sylwester POROWSKI, IHPP, PAS, Poland
2014 - Professor George M. WHITESIDES, Harvard University, USA
2015 - Professor Claes-Göran GRANQVIST, The Angström Laboratory, Uppsala, Sweden
2016 - Professor Manijeh RAZEGHI, Northwestern University, USA
2017 - Professor Elvira FORTUNATO, CENIMAT - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2018 - Professor Herbert GLEITER - Research Centre Karlsruhe (INT), Germany

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