IUMRS Sômiya Award
The Sômiya award is named in honor of Dr. Shigeyuki Sômiya, Emeritus Professor of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and later Dean at Teikyo University of Science and Engineering. Dr. Sômiya is a winner of the MRS Medal and the Japanese Scientific Academic Award.
Professor Sômiya spent his post-graduate years in the U.S. and embarked on a series of collaborative research and exchange visits in many countries, starting in 1969 with the U.S.-Japan Workshop in Ceramics — the very first in materials science. He also actively pursued joint work with colleagues in Europe, and brought many international materials gatherings to Japan.
The objective of the Sômiya award is to encourage international collaboration in materials research and recognize success in such collaboration. One award is presented to a research team consisting of members from at least two continents.
The following criteria are used by the IUMRS Commission on Awards for selection:
- The team to be honored must have collaborated across at least two continents some time during the last decade.
- The collaborative work must be of the highest quality and well recognized by the international materials community.
- The impact on technology or society is also a major factor.
Dr. Shigeyuki Sômiya
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Year | Name(s) | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
2019 | Liming Dai | Case Western Reserve University, USA |
2017 | Chennupati Jagadish | Australian National University, Australia |
2015 | Ruslan Z. Valiev Yuntian T. Zhu | UFA State Aviation Technical University, Russia North Carolina State University, USA |
2012 | John A. Kilner
| Imperial College London, UK |
2009 | Mildred S. Dresselhaus Ado Jorio Mauricio Terrones Riichio Saito Morinobu Endo Marcos Pimenta Antonio G. Souza Filho | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Instituto Potosino de Investigacion Cientificay Technologica, Mexico Tohoku University, Japan Shinshu University, Japan Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Universidade Federal do Ceara, Brazil |
2007 | Ivan K. Schuller Yvan Bruynseraede | University of California, San Diego, USA Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium |
2005 | Terence Langdon Zenji Horita | University of Southern California, USA Kyushu University, Japan |
2004 | C. N. R. Rao Anthony Cheetham | JNCASR, Bangalore, India University of California at Santa Barbara, USA |
2003 | Klaas de Groot Fu Zhai Cui | IsoTis NV, Holland Tsinghua University, China |
2001 | Antoni Tomsia Jose Moya | University of California Berkeley, USA E-MRS |
2000 | X. R. Wu J. C. Newman, Jr. | Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials, China NASA Langley Research Centre, USA |