ASM International, Materials Park, Ohio, is pleased to announce that John Gordon Speer, FASM, professor, Department of Metallurgical and Materials, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, received the 2015 J. Willard Gibbs Phase Equilibria Award. His citation reads:
“For innovative applications of fundamental phase transformation principles in ferrous systems, development of quenching and partitioning process (Q&P) and contributions to phase equilibria education.”
The Gibbs Award was established in 2007 to recognize outstanding contributions to the field of phase equilibria. The award honors J. Willard Gibbs, one of America’s greatest theoretical scientists.
In addition to many other contributions, Gibbs laid the thermodynamics foundations of phase equilibria with his brilliant essay, “On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances,” published in 1876 and in 1878 in the Transactions of the Connecticut Academy.
Prof. Speer will receive his award at MS&T’15 in October 2015, in Columbus.
