Congratulations to the 2017 NIMS Award Recipients

Thermo-Calc Software send our congratulations to this year’s NIMS Award recipients, Dr. John Ågren, Dr. Bo Sundman and Dr. Kiyohito Ishida. According to the NIMS announcement, the three were selected because they “have advanced the field of computational thermodynamics and developed thermodynamic calculation software.” Both Dr. Ågren and Dr. Sundman are original developers of Thermo-Calc and Dr. Ågren is currently a Senior Scientific Adviser at Thermo-Calc Software.

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The 2017 NIMS award winners, from left to right:
Dr. John Ågren, Dr. Bo Sundman and Dr. Kiyohito Ishida.
Photo credit: National Institute of Materials Science

The NIMS Award has been given out since 2007 and is, “given to researchers with outstanding achievements in the development of scientific technologies for application in various substances and materials.” Scientists are nominated from around the world and winners are selected after a rigorous examination by a panel of scholarly experts.

The three recipients will be celebrated at the 2017 NIMS Week, an academic symposium and business convention held October 4-6 at the Tsukuba International Congress Center in Japan.

Congratulations to all three recipients on this prestigious award.

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