Brent Fultz

Brent Fultz is the Barbara and Stanley Rawn, Jr. Professor of Materials Science and Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology.[1] He is known for his research in materials physics and materials chemistry, and for establishing the importance of phonon entropy to the phase stability of materials.[2] He oversaw the construction of the wide angular-range chopper spectrometer (ARCS) instrument at the Spallation Neutron Source[3] and has made advances in phonon measuring techniques.[2]

Brent Fultz
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California (Ph.D., 1982)
MIT (B.Sc., 1975)
Scientific career
FieldsMaterials Science
InstitutionsCalifornia Institute of Technology

He is the author of two graduate level textbooks, Transmission Electron Microscopy and Diffractometry of Materials (with James M. Howe, Springer, 2001; 4th ed., 2013) on diffractometry of materials,[4][5] and Phase Transitions in Materials (Cambridge University Press, 2014) on phase transitions in materials.[6]

Awards

References
  1. Brent Fultz faculty page
  2. TMS Awards, accessed 2017-08-22
  3. Robinson, Lynne (January 31, 2011), "The Scientific Journey of Brent Fultz", Tech News Headlines, JOM: The Member Journal of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
  4. Review of Transmission Electron Microscopy and Diffractometry of Materials by John Hutchison (2001), Journal of Microsopy 204 (3): 263–264, doi:10.1046/j.1365-2818.2001.00962-2.x
  5. Review of Transmission Electron Microscopy and Diffractometry of Materials by Douglas L. Dorset (202), Journal of Applied Crystallography 35 (1): 145–146, doi:10.1107/S0021889801020532
  6. Review of Phase Transition in Materials by A. M. Glazer (2015), Acta Crystallographica B 71 (1): 122–123, doi:10.1107/S205252061500075X
  7. NSSA Fellows, accessed 2017-08-22
  8. Professor Fultz Elected APS Fellow, accessed 2018-04-23
  9. Professor Fultz Named TMS Fellow, accessed 2018-04-23
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