Professor John Steeds in the School of Physics has been selected, together with Michiyoshi Tanaka, Emeritus Professor at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, to receive the 2014 Gjønnes Medal for their outstanding contributions to convergent-beam electron diffraction that revolutionised electron crystallography.
The work of Professor Steeds, Professor Tanaka and colleagues 吃瓜网 and Sendai had a major impact on the subsequent design of transmission electron microscopes for application to studies of crystalline materials.
Transmission electron microscopes are used worldwide in research on materials and, in particular, in studying nanostructures. They are used in universities, industry, government research labs and medical research establishments, and are of importance to physics, chemistry, metallurgy, earth sciences and biological and medical sciences.
As part of the award, Professors Steeds and Tanaka will give the Gjønnes Medal Lectures at the next International Union of Crystallography Congress, in Montreal, Canada in August 2014.