IMS Member Recognition

IMS recognizes technical achievements in a number of different ways.

The Sorby Award is presented annually in recognition of lifetime achievement in the field of metallurgy. The recipients are acknowledged for 25 years or more of dedication to research, teaching or laboratory sales and service.

Past recipients: 1976 George L. Kehl 1977 Cyril Stanley Smith 1978 Adolph Buehler 1979 Frederick N. Rhines 1980 Len E. Samuels 1981 Robert J. Gray 1982 Gunter Petzow 1983 William D. Forgeng 1984 Ervin E. Underwood 1985 Alan Price 1986 Robert W. K. Honeycombe 1987 Gareth Thomas

1988 Franz Jeglitsch 1989 Tanjore R. Anantharaman 1990 E. Daniel Albrecht 1991 W.C. Leslie 1992 Charles S. Barrett 1993 Raimond B. Castaing 1994 F. Brian Pickering 1995 Erhard Hornbogen 1996 Peter Duncumb 1997 Robert T. DeHoff 1998 Kay Geels 1999 Joseph Goldstein

2000 Hans Eckhart Exner 2001 Brian Ralph 2002 Walter Mannheimer 2003 Enrica Stagno 2004 George F. Vander Voort 2005 Iain Le May 2006 Arlan Benscoter 2007 McIntyre R. Louthan, Jr. 2008 Lawrence E. Murr 2009 Chris Bagnall

Best Paper Awards are presented for technical contributions to the literature. Two sponsored awards with cash prizes are presented annually: one each for papers published in Microstructural Science and Materials Characterization.

The President's Award is conferred annually by the IMS President in recognition of outstanding service to IMS.

Past recipients: 1977 Carus K. H. DuBose 1978 Richard D. Buchheit 1979 Arthur E. Calabra 1980 James L. McCall 1981 E. Daniel Albrecht 1982 James H. Richardson 1983 Robert J. Gray 1984 Japnell D. Braun 1985 not awarded 1986 P. Michael French 1987 George F. Vander Voort 1988 Robert S. Crouse 1989 Iain Le May

1990 William E. White 1991 Chris Bagnall 1992 Gary W. Johnson 1993 Donald W. Stevens 1994 MacIntyre R. Louthan, Jr. 1995 Gunter Petzow 1996 James Nelson 1997 John Wylie 1998 John W. Simmons 1999 William Forgeng, Jr. 2000 Natolio Saenz 2001 William W. Scott, Jr. 2002 George Blann

2003 Jeff Stewart 2004 Elliot Clark 2005 Chris Bagnall 2006 Art Geary 2007 Richard K. Ryan 2008 Thomas S. Passek 2009 David and Dale Fitzgerald

The IMS Metallographic Contest and Exhibit draw the interest of metallographers around the world, as they compete for the prestigious $3,000 Jacquet-Lucas Award, jointly conferred by IMS and ASM International.

Pierre Jacquet winners: 1968 L.R. Savage 1969 S.L. DiGiallornardo, R.R. Vandervoort 1970 G. Menke Past J/L Award winners: 1971 R.H. Beauchamp, J.E Williford 1972 C.J. Echer, S.L. DiGiallornardo 1973 M.S. Grewal, B.H. Alexander, S.A. Sastri 1974 M.R. Pinnel, D.E. Heath, J.E. Bennett, G.V. McIlharagie 1975 W.C. Coons 1976 L.E. Soderqvist 1977 R.H. Beauchamp, D.H. Parks, N.T. Saenz, K.R. Wheeler 1978 C. Bagnall, R. Witkowski 1979 M.J. Bridges, S.J. Dekanich 1980 R.H. Beauchamp, K. Fredriksson 1981 F. Kurosawa, I. Taguchi, H. G. Suzuki 1982 M.J. Carr, M.C. Mataya, T.O. Wilford, J.L. Young

1983 V. Carle, E. Schmid 1984 R.H. Beauchamp, N.T. Saenz, J.T. Prater 1985 U. Taffner, R. Telle 1986 N.T. Saenz, C.A. Lavender, M.T. Smith, D.H. Parks, G.M. Salazar 1987 S.A. David, J.M. Vitek, C.P. Haltom, A.G. Barcomb 1988 A. David, J.M. Vitek, A. Boatner, G.C. Marsh, A.B. Baldwin 1989 G. Hoerz, M.C. Kallfass 1990 A. David, J.M. Vitek, A.B. Baldwin 1991 M.R. Jones 1992 G.F. VanderVoort 1993 T. Leonhardt, E. Terepka, M. Singh, G. Soltis 1994 J.W. Simmons, B.S. Covino, Jr., S.D. Cramer, J.S. Dunning 1995 Kamal, K. Soni, R. Levi-Setti, S. Shah, S.J. Gentz

1996 R.L. Bodnar, S.J. Lawrence 1997 J. Yewko, D.L. Marshall 1998 R. Pereyra, E.G. Zukas 1999 K.R. Luer 2000 D.J. Lewis, S. Allen 2001 D. Chakrapani 2002 F.F. Noecker, II 2003 F.F. Noecker, II 2004 Raymond R. Unocic, Peter M. Sarosi, Michael J. Mills 2005 Kousuke Kimura, Satoshi Hata, Syo Matsumura, Takao Horiuchi 2006 Ryan Deacon 2007 K.A. Unocic, G.S. Daehn 2008 T. Nizolek 2009 Brian Gerard