Mats Hillert#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1128 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1991 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
Mats Hillert passed away November 2, 2022.
Positions Held
- 1991 Professor emeritus, Unpaid member of the staff, MSE, KTH
- 1961 - 1990 Professor of Physical Metallurgy, KTH (Royal Inst. Technology) Stockholm
- 1948 - 1961 Swedish Inst Metals Research
Fields of Scholarship
- Thermodynamic modelling of phases
- Application of thermodynamics to phase transformations
- Diffusional phase transformations
- Principles of phase diagrams
- Solidification of alloys
- Thermodynamic properties of alloys
- Phase transformations in steels
Honours and Awards
Awards:
- R.F. Mehl medalist (Met. Soc. AIME)
- Bakhuis Roozeboom Gold Medal (Royal Acad. Netherland)
- Acta Metallurgica Gold Medal
- Murakami Gold Medal (Japan)
- Brinell Gold Medal (IVA, Sweden)
- Rinman Gold Medal (Jernkontoret, Sweden)
- Tawara Gold Medal (Iron Steel Inst. Japan)
- Wallmark award (KVA, Sweden)
- Björkén award (Uppsala University, Sweden)
- KTH Stora Pris (Royal Inst. Technology, Sweden)
- Hume Rothery Prize (Inst. of Metals, London)
- William Hume-Rothery Award (TMS, Warrendale, PA)
- Staudinger-Durrer Medal (ETH Zürich 2001)
Societies:
- Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences (Sweden)
- Fellow of Royal Acad. Sciences (Sweden)
- Honorary Member of Japan Inst. Metals 1990
- Honorary Member of Japan Inst Iron Steel Inst 1990
- Fellow of ASM International
- Fellow of Met. Soc. AIME (TMS)
- Member of Academia Europaea
- External Member of Max Planck Society (Germany)
- Foreign Associate, National Academy of Engineering (USA)
