Drs. Morishita & Navrotsky Receive The Spriggs Phase Equilibria Award
February 4, 2005
Dr. Masao Morishita, Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Chemistry of the University of Hyogo, Japan and Dr. Alexandra Navrotsky, Director of NEAT ORU at UC Davis, are the 2005 Recipients of the Richard and Patricia Spriggs Phase Equilibria Award for their paper titled 'Calorimetric Study of Nickel Molybdate: Heat Capacity, Enthalpy, and Gibbs Energy of Formation,' J. Am. Ceram. Society, 86(11)1927-32(2003)
Dear Drs. Navrotsky and Morishita:
It is my great pleasure to inform you that The American Ceramic Society Board of Directors unanimously bestowed upon you the honor of the Spriggs Phase Equilibria for your paper 'Calorimetric Study of Nickel Molybdate: Heat Capacity, Enthalpy, and Gibbs Energy of Formation,' J. Am. Ceram. Society, 86(11)1927-32(2003). Congratulations on receiving this important honor.
Recognition of this award will be given at the Honors and Awards Banquet at our 107th Annual Meeting, April 12, 2005 in Baltimore, Maryland. Additional information regarding the Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet will be sent to you from Staff Headquarters in the very near future.
For publicity purposes, please send to us, by February 15, 2005, a brief biographical sketch and photograph per the attached instructions and mailing details.
I look forward to seeing you in Baltimore and to adding my personal congratulations for this recognition of your accomplishments!
Sincerely,
John Marra Ph.D.
President,
The American Ceramic Society
Manager, Waste Treatment Technology Department
Savannah River National Laboratory
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The following is taken from the ACerS webpage at http://www.ceramics.org/membership/awards/spriggs.asp
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Richard and Patricia Spriggs Phase Equilibria
Award
Deadline: July 1
The Spriggs Phase Equilibria Award Sub-Committee shall each year, if
any candidate be worthy, select a recipient of the Spriggs Phase Equilibria
Award, subject to the approval of the Board of Directors.
The award shall be given to the author or authors who, in the judgment of the Committee, made the most valuable contribution to phase stability relationships in ceramic-based systems literature during the calendar year prior to the selection. For the purposes of this Committee, a phase equilibria article is defined as a paper, article, or report published in a technical or trade journal, or in a bulletin from a school, laboratory, technical bureau, or experimental station, or in a pamphlet or book form. It must be complete and readily available to the public.
The annual award of the Spriggs Phase Equilibria Award shall be a certificate, and a cash prize of $1,000 to be divided equally among multiple authors.
The eligibility for the Spriggs Phase Equilibria Award is open to all persons world wide.
History of Winners:
Date
Elevated Name Awarded For:
2005 Masao Morishita and Alexandra Navrotsky Calorimetric Study of Nickel
Moybdate: Heat Capacity, Enthalpy, and Gibbs Energy of Formation, J.
Am. Ceram. Soc., 86(11)1927-32(2003)
2004 Theodore M. Besmann and Karl E. Spear Thermochemical Modeling of
Oxide Glasses, J. Am. Ceram.Soc., 85 (12) 2887-94 - (2002)
2003 Robert Roth Lifetime Achievement
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