Materials Research Society
The Materials Research Society ( MRS ) is an international scientific society in the field of materials research . Founded in 1973, MRS is a non-profit organization based in the United States in Warrendale , Pennsylvania . It has over 16,000 members from over 80 countries (as of 2016), about 45 percent of whom are from outside the United States.
The company conducts and promotes interdisciplinary materials research. The members are physicists , chemists , biologists , mathematicians and engineers from research institutions , industrial companies and government institutions.
Annually, two meetings are held in Phoenix , Arizona and Boston , Massachusetts with a total of about 13,000 participants. He has issued several publications such as the Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings , the Journal of Materials Research , MRS Communications , MRS Advances, and the MRS Bulletin . The society awards several prizes, such as the MRS Medal and, since 1978, in memory of Arthur R. von Hippel, the Von Hippel Award as the highest scientific honor .
In the 1980s, MRS promoted the establishment of materials research societies around the world, for example in Europe, Japan, China, Mexico, Taiwan, India and Australia. In 1990, following the example of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), these societies founded the International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS), which uses the infrastructure of the MRS . The IUMRS is a member of the International Science Council .
The co-founder of the Materials Research Society Harry C. Gatos (1921-2015) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was the first president from 1973 to 1975. The German materials scientist Oliver Kraft from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology became the first non-American to become Vice President in 2014 and President of MRS in 2015.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Materials Research Society on bloomberg.com
- ↑ About Materials Research Society on kgk-rubberpoint.de
- ↑ IUMRS History and Mission on the website of IUMRS
- ^ Harry C. Gatos on the Electrochemical Society website
- ↑ Oliver Kraft becomes President of the Materials Research Society. Press release 135/2013 on the website of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology