MAS Fellows
MAS Fellow is a designation that is intended to recognize eminent scientists, engineers, and technologists in the field of microanalysis of materials and related phenomena who have distinguished themselves through outstanding research and service to the microanalysis community. This includes, but is not limited to technique development, applications, theory development, and distinguished service to the society. Election as a MAS Fellow will be highly selective but should represent a broad cross-section of the MAS membership. They are selected by a review committee from among those nominated by their peers, and then confirmed by the Executive Council.
Nominations are due September 30th of a given year and will be kept on file and considered active for a period of three years.
The MAS Fellows program is governed by this document which gives all revelant details.
You can submit a nomination through this form.
Meet the Fellows
Full List of MAS Fellows
| Name | Inducted | Citation |
|---|---|---|
| Louis T. Germinario | 2024 | For the development of cryo-stages for in-situ SEM studies, single atom imaging, and service to the microanalysis community |
| No Fellows awarded in 2023 | ||
| Rhonda M. Stroud | 2022 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to analytical microscopy of extraterrestrial materials |
| Gregory P. Meeker | 2022 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to microprobe analysis of geological materials and minerals |
| Larry F. Allard | 2022 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to development of electron microscopy of materials |
| Vincent S. Smentkowski | 2021 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to development of surface science techniques and multivariate statistical analysis methods in microanalysis |
| Alan O. Sandborg | 2021 | For pioneering developments of Silicon and Germanium detectors and electronics systems for EDS on electron beam instruments for over 50 years |
| Yimei Zhu | 2020 | For outstanding leadership and pioneering development of electron-based techniques for quantitative materials characterization in the study interfaces, defects, and electronic inhomogeneity of functional materials |
| Lothar Strüder | 2020 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to development and commercialization of the Silicon Drift Detector for energy-dispersive spectroscopy |
| Christopher Kiely | 2020 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to analytical electron microscopy of nanoparticle self-assembly, metal and complex oxide catalysts, and interfacial analysis |
| Valerie Woodward | 2019 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to industrial microscopy applications and professional society stewardship |
| Masashi Watanabe | 2019 | For outstanding leadership in analytical electron microscopy and the pioneering development of zeta-factor technique for quantitative STEM-XEDS microanalysis |
| Ed Vicenzi | 2019 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to microanalysis of geological materials |
| John Small | 2019 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to microanalysis in electron microscopy |
| John Henry Scott | 2019 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contribution to chemical spectroscopy(XEDS and EELS) and data analysis |
| Nicholas Ritchie | 2019 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to x-ray spectral simulation and its validation in analytical microscopy |
| Inga Musselman | 2019 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to the development and application of scanning probe microscopy to the study of surface chemistry |
| Joseph Michael | 2019 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to analytical electron microscopy, focused ion beam microscopy and electron backscatter diffraction techniques to the study of advanced materials |
| John Mansfield | 2019 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to analytical electron microscopy and microscopy education |
| Charles Lyman | 2019 | For outstanding and sustained contributions to catalysis research through electron microscopy and for international communications/outreach through Microscopy Today and Microscopy and Microanalysis |
| Paul Kotula | 2019 | For outstanding leadership and contributions to the development and application of multivariate anaysis to chemical images |
| Thomas Kelly | 2019 | For outstanding leadership and pioneering contributions to atom probe microanalysis and the development of the Local Electrode Atom Probe |
| Cathy Johnson | 2019 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to industrial analytical microscopy and stewardship of professional societies of microscopy |
| Michael Jercinovic | 2019 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to the development and applications of electron microprobes for geology |
| Thomas Huber | 2019 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to the development of commercial electron microscopes, development of MAS sustaining membership and financial support of the society |
| Paul Hlava | 2019 | For outstanding leadership in the analysis of minerals using analytical microscopy and for exemplary, sustained service to MAS as leader of Regional Societies and Tour Speaker programs |
| Raynald Gauvin | 2019 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to the development and simulation of scanning electron microscopy and x-ray microanalysis of materials |
| Hamish Fraser | 2019 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to analytical electron microscopy of metals and alloys and microscopy education |
| John Fournelle | 2019 | For outstanding leadership and innovation in developing microanalysis techniques, training generations of geologists, and applications to geological and synthetic materials |
| Ray Egerton | 2019 | For pioneering contributions to the science and technology of electron energy loss spectroscopy |
| Vinayak Dravid | 2019 | For pioneering contributions to electron and probe microscopy for interdisciplinary materials research |
| John Donovan | 2019 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to the development of electron microprobe instrumentation and methods |
| Bill Chambers | 2019 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to the automation of the electron microprobe and advanced probe analytical procedures as embodied in the Sandia Task software |
| Paul Carpenter | 2019 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to analytical characterization of geological materials with the electron microprobe |
| Phil Batson | 2019 | For outstanding leadership and pioneering contributions to the fundamental advances of electron energy loss spectroscopy |
| Ian Anderson | 2019 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to analytical microscopy studies and analysis methodology of advanced materials |
| Nestor Zaluzec | 2018 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to advanced analytical electron microscopy including development of scanning confocal electron microscopy and spectrometry combined with electron diffraction, HARECXS and HARECES. |
| David Williams | 2018 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to analytical transmission electron microscopy theory and practice. |
| Peter Statham | 2018 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to important advances in commercial energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometry measurement platforms. |
| Georges Slodzian | 2018 | For pioneering achievements in the development of the ion microprobe. |
| Ryuichi Shimizu | 2018 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to the development of quantitative electron-excited X-ray microanalysis and surface analysis through fundamental studies of electron physics, secondary electron properties, and X-ray generation and emission parameters. |
| Frederick Schamber | 2018 | For outstanding leadership in the development of the filter-fit method for EDS and sustained contributions to digital scanning electron microscopy instrumentation. |
| Phil Russell | 2018 | For outstanding contributions and leadership in materials characterization using atomic force microscope techniques. |
| Stephen Reed | 2018 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to the fundamental understanding of methods of quantitative microanalysis, including the fluorescence correction used in most matrix correction programs. |
| Jean Philibert | 2018 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to quantitative X-ray microanalysis and applications in several fields of metallurgy. |
| Dale Newbury | 2018 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to understanding the limits of x-ray microanalysis methods and instrumentation for accurate micro- and nano-analysis. |
| Robert Myklebust | 2018 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to the development of quantitative X-ray microanalysis software: NBS/NIST COR, FRAME, FRAMEC, DTSA, and Monte Carlo electron trajectory simulation (designated “the pitbull of assembly code” by the late Chuck Fiori). |
| Jon McCarthy | 2018 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to development of instrumentation for quantitative x-ray microanalysis in electron microscopes. |
| Ryna Marinenko | 2018 | For outstanding leadership and contributions to the development and application of electron probe x-ray microanalysis to the characterization of materials. |
| Eric Lifshin | 2018 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to all aspects of quantitative electron beam X-ray microanalysis, starting with the first EPASA conference, including implementing the first EDS on an SEM and making fundamental measurements of electron – X-ray parameters. |
| Richard Leapman | 2018 | For outstanding achievements and leadership in the characterization of biological structures using EELS and STEM techniques. |
| Ondrej Krivanek | 2018 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to developing digital image recording, electron energy-loss spectrometers, and aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopes. |
| Klaus Keil | 2018 | For outstanding innovation developing the first energy-dispersive spectrometer (EDS) on an electron microprobe with collaborators R. Fitzgerald and K.F.G. Heinrich leading to the first EDS paper in Science in 1968. |
| David Joy | 2018 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to all aspects of scanning electron microscopy (e.g., high-resolution imaging, electron detectors, electron channeling contrast, magnetic contrast) and analytical electron microscopy (e.g., X-ray and electron energy-loss spectrometry). |
| Brendan Griffin | 2018 | For outstanding achievements in the application of analytical environmental scanning electron microscopy and related techniques to the study of materials |
| Lucille Giannuzzi | 2018 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to the development of focussed ion beam instrumentation and applications for electron microscopy. |
| Raymond Fitzgerald | 2018 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to the development of electron probe X-ray microanalysis, especially the first implementation of energy-dispersive spectrometry on an electron beam instrument. |
| Peter Duncumb | 2018 | For pioneering achievements in the development of electron probe microanalyzer and the analytical transmission electron microscope with energy-dispersive x-ray spectrometry. |
| John Colby | 2018 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to computer-based quantitative microanalysis, including the breakthrough implementation of the first ZAF program for modern minicomputers |
| Gordon Cleaver | 2018 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to the successful management of the financial operations of the Microanalysis Society and its predecessors, extending all the way back to the Electron Probe Analysis Society of America (EPASA). |
| C. Barry Carter | 2018 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to transmission electron microscopy characterization of materials. |
| Mary Grace Burke | 2018 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to analytical characterization of complex materials used in severe environments. |
| Wilbur Bigelow | 2018 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to the applications of transmission electron microscopy in studies of metal and ceramic materials. |
| James Bentley | 2018 | For outstanding leadership and sustained contributions to analytical electron microscopy studies of materials. |