Takeshi Egami, a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the 2010 winner of the J.D. Hanawalt Award for excellence in the field of X-ray powder diffraction. The award is given every three years by the International Union of Crystallography for important contributions to the field of X-ray powder diffraction. Simon Billinge of Columbia University is a co-recipient of the award. Egami and Billinge co-wrote Underneath the Bragg Peaks: Structural Analysis of Complex Materials, which was published by Pergamon Press in 2003.
Egami pioneered the development of new techniques to determine the atomic structure and motion of atoms in solids, using both neutron and X-ray scattering. He is an expert on structure-property relationships in materials, atomistic theory and modeling of solids and liquids, magnetism, ferroelectricity, superconductivity, computer simulations and atomic structural analysis. He is also a Distinguished Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Selected Publications
“Atomistic Theory of Metallic Liquids and Glasses,” T. Egami, in Bulk Metallic Glasses, ed. M. Miller and P. Liaw (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2009) p. 27.
“Recent Advances in the Study of Complex Materials by Neutron Scattering,” T. Egami, in Diffuse Scattering and the Fundamental Properties of Materials, eds. R.I. Barabash, G.E. Ice, and P.E.A. Turchi (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2009) p. 317.
“Equipartition Theorem and the Dynamics of Liquids,” V. A. Levashov, R. S. Aga, J. R. Morris and T. Egami, Phys. Rev. B, 78, 064205 (2008).
“Essential Role of the Lattice in the Mechanism of High Temperature Superconductivity,” T. Egami, in High TC Superconductors and Related Transition Metal Oxides: Special Contributions in Honor of K. Alex Müller on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday, eds. A. Bussmann-Holder and H. Keller (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2007) p. 103.
“Local Structure and Dynamics of Ferroelectric Solids,” T. Egami, in Structure and Bonding, Vol. 124, Ferro-and Antiferroelectricity, eds. N. S. Dalal and A. Bussmann-Holder (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2007) p. 69.
“Glass Transition in Metallic Glasses: A Microscopic Model of Topological Fluctuations in the Bonding Network,” T. Egami, S. J. Poon, Z. Zhang and V. Keppens, Phys. Rev. B, 76: 024203 (2007).
“Lattice Effects in Superconducting Cuprates”, T. Egami, Festschrift for V. Ginzburg (Invited), J. Supercond. and Novel Magnetism, 19: 203 (2006).
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