|
Year |
Awardee |
Affiliation |
Citation |
|
1987 |
Alan N. Gent |
University of
Akron |
for his
outstanding contributions in establishing fracture energy
criteria for adhesive failure and developing elegant test
procedures based on those criteria |
|
1988 |
Edwin P.
Plueddemann |
Dow Corning |
for creating the
technology of silane coupling agents used for increased
environmental durability of adhesive systems |
|
1989 |
Frederick M.
Fowkes |
Lehigh University
|
for fundamental
understanding of and contributions to interfacial phenomena
with particular reference to adhesion science |
|
1990 |
Willard D. Bascom
|
University of Utah
|
for pioneering
research in many subfields of adhesive science, including
wetting |
|
1991 |
John D. Venables
|
Martin Marietta
|
for contributions
to our understanding of metal oxide morphology and chemistry
with implications for adhesive bond durability |
|
1992 |
Anthony J. Kinloch
|
Imperial College
|
for his
contributions in the application of fracture mechanics and
surface science to the study of failure mechanisms in
structural adhesive bonds |
|
1993 |
Louis H. Sharpe
|
Consultant |
for his
recognition of the nature and significance of the interphase
and for unparalleled leadership in the establishment of the
archival literature in adhesion science |
|
1994 |
Lawrence T. Drzal
|
Michigan State
University |
for enhancing the
understanding of adhesion phenomena in fiber-reinforced
composites and for the development of methods to quantify
these phenomena |
|
1995 |
Jacques Schultz
|
Centre des
Nationale Recherches Scientific |
for fundamental
work in defining the relationship between wetting and surface
energetics and the practical strength of adhesive bonds |
|
1996 |
Robert J. Good
|
SUNY Buffalo |
for pioneering the
theory of intermolecular forces across interfaces |
|
1998 |
Kevin Kendall |
Keele University
|
for the
development of a method and theory which allows the direct
measurement of adhesion energies between materials and for the
novel application of fracture mechanics to explain adhesion
phenomena |
|
1999 |
F. James Boerio
|
University of
Cincinnati |
for the expansion
of our knowledge of bonding at interfaces through the use of
infrared spectroscopy and related techniques |
|
2000 |
Pierre-Gilles de
Gennes |
College de France
|
for his
contribution to the understanding of molecular mechanisms of
adhesion, especially through the notion of connector molecules
|
|
2001 |
Hatsuo Ishida |
Case Western
Reserve University |
for distinguished
service as researcher, teacher and global activist for the
benefit of adhesion and composite interface science |
|
2002 |
Kenneth L. Johnson
|
Cambridge
University |
for his seminal
work in the science of contact mechanics and the influence of
adhesion between solid surfaces |
|
2003 |
Jacob
Israelachvili |
University of California, Santa Barbara |
for
clarifying the molecular-level processes associated with
adhesion, friction and lubrication and the relationships
between them |
|
2004 |
A.
Wilhelm Neumann |
University of Toronto
|
for
a lifetime of contributions to the understanding of surface
thermodynamics and wettability, crucial to the science of
adhesion |
|
2005 |
Manoj K.
Chaudhury |
Lehigh University |
for
exceptional creativity and ingenuity in research on adhesion
and wetting and the development of simple methods to measure
the strength of attraction between materials |
|
2006 |
Hugh Brown |
University of Wollongong |
for his exceptionally creative
and diverse contributions to the understanding of the
mechanisms of adhesion between polymers, including the effect
of block copolymers on the fracture strength of polymer
interfaces |
|
2007 |
Liliane Leger |
University Paris -
Sud Orsay |
for her seminal
contributions to the field of Adhesion Science and Tribology
of soft materials |
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