Michael Ashby#
| Membership Number: | 242 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- Emeritus Professor of Materials, University of Cambridge
- Royal Society Research Professor
- Principal Investigator (PI) at the Engineering Design Centre at the University of Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- Materials science
Honours and Awards
- 1979 Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
- 1981 A. A. Griffith Medal and Prize
- 1986 Royal Society Armourers & Brasiers' Company Prize
- 1990 Member of the National Academy of Engineering
- 1993 European Materials Medal of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS)
- 1993 Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)
- 1997 CBE in the 1997 Birthday Honours
- 1993 Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1999 Eringen Medal
