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Richard W. Siegel,
Ph.D.
Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute
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Dr. Siegel is the Robert W. Hunt Professor of Materials
Science and Engineering and founding Director of the
Nanotechnology Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
He was chairman of the World Technology Evaluation
Center worldwide study on nanostructure science and
technology during 1996-98 that led to the US National
Nanotechnology Initiative and was past chairman (1992-96)
of the International Committee on Nanostructured Materials.
He has authored more than 200 publications in the
areas of defects in metals, diffusion, and nanophase
metal, ceramic, composite, and biomaterials, presented
more than 350 invited lectures around the world, and
edited nine books on these subjects. He is a founder
and Director of Nanophase Technologies Corporation,
and was recognized for this effort by a 1991 US Federal
Laboratory Consortium Award for Excellence in Technology
Transfer. Dr. Siegel is an Honorary Member of the
Materials Research Societies of India and Japan, and
a 1994 recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Senior Research Award in Germany.
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