Professor Donal Bradley awarded the E-MRS 2019 Jan Czochralski award

26 February 2019

The award is in recognition of Professor Bradley's achievements in the field of Advanced Materials Science

Prof. Donal Bradley - University of Oxford, U.K has been awarded the E-MRS 2019 Jan Czochralski Award in recognition of his achievements in the field of Advanced Materials Science. The Award Presentation Ceremony will take place on September 18, 2019. Prof. Bradley will deliver a lecture just after the award presentation ceremony.

Professor Jan Czochralski is one of the most famous Polish scientists. One of his most important discoveries was the technology for growing single crystals, now known as the Czochralski Method. It was discovered in 1916 when he found that after dipping a pen into a small crucible of molten aluminium and withdrawing it, a thread of aluminium hangs from the nib. Careful investigations had shown that this was a single crystal and so the Czochralski Method for single crystal growth was born. The method is used for example for the growth of the single crystals of Germanium and Silicon which are the basis of a vast range of modern electronic equipment and devices.

Taking into account the merits of Czochralski for materials science, technology transfer to industry, and international collaboration, the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) established an award in the name of Jan Czochralski.

More information about the award can be found here.

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