Professor J. F. van der Veen
chosen as first winner of the IUVSTA Prize
chosen as first winner of the IUVSTA Prize
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Professor J. F. van der Veen
chosen as first winner of the IUVSTA Prize |
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The first
award of the IUVSTA Prize will be made to Professor Johannes Friso van
der Veen of the University of Amsterdam for his pioneering investigations
of surface and interface structure, disordering and melting through the
development and application of Medium Energy Ion Scattering and Surface
X-ray Diffraction.
The newly-established
IUVSTA Prize, which comprises a cash award and a medal, is presented to
recognise outstanding internationally-acclaimed research in experimental
and/or theoretical research in vacuum science, technique or applications.
The Prize is endowed by generous donations from ANELVA; Balzers and Leybold
Holding AG; Intevac; OMICRON Vakuumphysik GmbH; Osaka Vacuum; Physical
Electronics; SAES Getters; ULVAC; TAV; Varian Associates; VAT.
Friso van
der Veen was born in Utrecht in The Netherlands and received his 'Doctorandus'
(1973) and Doctor's (1978) degrees from the University of Utrecht, his
thesis advisors being Professors F.W.Saris and J.Kistemaker at the FOM-Institute
of Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) in Amsterdam. He then spent 18
months working with Dr.D.E.Eastman at IBM Yorktown Heights in the USA
before returning to the FOM-AMOLF Institute in Amsterdam, first as a staff
member and later as a technical director. He moved to a position of Professor
of Experimental Physics at the Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute of the University
of Amsterdam in 1997.
His early
work centred on the development and application of the novel method of
medium energy ion scattering (MEIS) with Frans Saris at the AMOLF Institute
for the determination of the geometrical structure of surfaces, and synchrotron
radiation-based photoemission characterisation of electronic structure
first in collaboration with Dean Eastman using the Tantalus facility in
Madison, Wisconsin, and then ACO in Orsay, France with Poul Larsen. More
recently he has become involved in the development and exploitation of
surface X-ray diffraction, first at the Daresbury SRS facility in the
UK and most recently at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)
in Grenoble, France. Apart from the novel techniques themselves, pioneering
structural studies included those of surface disordering and surface melting,
in situ MBE growth studies and properties of solid-liquid interfaces.
His professional
activities have included a term as the President of the Netherlands Vacuum
Society, general chairmanship of the 12th International Vacuum Congress
of IUVSTA in The Hague in 1992, and Chairmanship of the Science Advisory
Committee (SAC) of the ESRF.
The IUVSTA
Prize will be presented to Professor van der Veen at the International
Vacuum Congress in Birmingham, England, 31 August - 4 September 1998.
The award will be made at the opening ceremony, on Monday morning, 31
August 1998. |
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