


Awards and prizes
News from ICDD
Goehner and Michael Receive Hanawalt Award
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The J.D. Hanawalt Award is presented every three years for important contributions to the field of X-ray powder diffraction and phase identification published within the last five years. The award consists of a plaque, an honorarium, and travel funds to attend the meeting at which the award and lecture will be presented.
Previous recipients include: Herbert Göbel, 1998; Daniel Louër, 1992; William Parrish, 1986; and Ludo K. Frevel, 1983.
Appointment of new executive director
The ICDD is pleased to announce that Tim Fawcett is the new Executive Director of the ICDD. Tim has been a long time ICDD member, ICDD Fellow, and member of the Board of Directors (1986-1988).
Tim received his BS degree with honors from the U. of Massachusetts, and his Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Rutgers U. in 1979. He joined Dow Chemical Co., worked in the X-ray diffraction facility, managed the inorganic analysis laboratories and from 1989 to 1994, he was a manager in Dow’s Ceramics and Advanced Materials Laboratories. Since 1994 he has managed Dow’s Advanced Technologies and Inorganic Coating Group, the Interfacial Sciences Discipline, and most recently, two of Dow’s new product development areas which involved a portfolio of projects leading to advanced materials products.