Terence G. Langdon
Citation: For his significant contribution to creep and superplasticity of structural
materials and to the development of ultrafine-grained materials by severe plastic
deformation.
Biography: Terence Langdon is the William E. Leonard Professor of Engineering at the University
of Southern California (USC). He is also professor of Aerospace & Mechanical
Engineering, Materials Science, and Earth Sciences at USC and visiting professor at
Kyushu University (Japan) and the University of Southampton (UK).
Prof. Langdon is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Institute of Materials, the
American Ceramic Society, and ASM International. He is a Fellow of the Royal
Academy of Engineering in the UK. He was awarded the degree of Doctor Honoris
Causa by the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2003. He has published over 600
scientific papers. Currently, he is ranked second world-wide for publishing in materials
science based on the number of citations received for papers published during the
period 1993–2003. |