Professor Ravichandran Receives Werner Köster Prize

Guruswami Ravichandran, John E. Goode, Jr., Professor of Aerospace and Professor of Mechanical Engineering as well as Director of the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, and his former postdoctoral scholar Dr. Laurence Bodelot have been selected to receive the 2014 Werner Köster Prize for their paper entitled “Experimental determination of a representative texture and insight into the range of significant neighbouring grain interactions via orientation and misorientation statistics.”

The prize is given to the best paper published in the International Journal of Materials Research (IJMR) in the previous year in recognition of being an “outstanding original work of fundamental importance in the field of metallurgy.” The prize is made in memory of the eminent metallurgist and past direct of the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Professor Werner Köster.