Dr. William D. Nix This is Me

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1. 1. Liquidmetal Technologies Advisory Board

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   Dr. William D. Nix, Stanford University Liquidmetal Technologies - Advisory Board
   
   Dr. Nix's special interests are imperfections in crystalline solids and their relation to the mechanical properties of bulk and thin film materials.

2. 2. www.photonics.com

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   Also recognized at the meeting were Nobel Laureate Harold Kroto, a chemistry professor at Florida State University, with the inaugural Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience; Omar M. Yaghi, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles, with the 2007 MRS Medal Award for his pioneering work on metal-organic frameworks; William Nix, professor emeritus, Stanford University, with the Von Hippel Award for interdisciplinary materials research; and Ramamoorthy Ramesh, a University of California, Berkeley, materials science, engineering and physics professor, with the 2007 MRS Turnbull Lectureship for his contributions to understanding materials phenomena and properties through research, writing and lecturing.

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   William Nix
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   William D. Nix obtained his BS in metallurgical engineering from San Jose State College, and his MS and PhD in metallurgical engineering and materials science, respectively, from Stanford University. He joined the Stanford University faculty in 1963. From 1968 to 1970, Nix was director of Stanford's Center for Materials Research. He was appointed professor in 1972. Named the Lee Otterson Professor of Engineering at Stanford University in 1989, Nix served as chairman of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering from 1991 to 1996, becoming professor emeritus in 2003. He was awarded honorary Doctor of Engineering degrees by the Colorado School of Mines (2001) and by the University of Illinois (2007).
   
   Nix teaches courses on dislocation theory and mechanical properties of materials, and is engaged in research on the mechanical properties of solids. He is principally concerned with the relation between structure and mechanical properties of materials in both thin film and bulk form, and has trained 75 PhD students in these subjects during his years at Stanford.
   
   Throughout his career, Nix has received many awards: the Western Electric Fund Award for Excellence in Engineering Instruction (1964); the Bradley Stoughton Teaching Award of ASM (1970); the 1979 Champion Herbert Mathewson Award (1979); the Institute of Metals Lecturer (1988); the Robert Franklin Mehl Award of the (TMS) Metallurgical Society (1988); the Educator Award from TMS (1995); a Distinguished Alumnus Award from San Jose State University (1980); the Acta Metallurgica Gold Medal (1993); and the Nadai Medal (2001) from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
   
   He has been the recipient of numerous honors from the American Society of Metals. Nix received the ASM Gold Medal (1998) and was selected by ASM International to give the Edward DeMille Campbell Memorial Lecture (1989). He delivered the Alpha Sigma Mu Lecture to ASM (2000). He has received the following ASM awards: the Albert Easton White Distinguished Teacher Award (2002), and the Albert Sauveur Achievement Award (2003).
   
   Nix has been elected: a Fellow of the American Society for Metals (1978); a Fellow of the Metallurgical Society of AIME (1988); to the National Academy of Engineering (1987); a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002); and to the National Academy of Sciences (2003).
   
   In 1966, he participated in the Ford Foundation's Residence in Engineering Practice program as assistant to the director of technology at the Stellite Division of Union Carbide Corporation. He is co-author of over 425 publications, and of The Principles of Engineering Materials, published in 1973 by Prentice-Hall, Incorporated.