Chang receives top materials science honor

The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society has awarded its top honor for leadership in the field to UW–Madison engineer Y. Austin Chang.

Chang, the Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, received the society’s 2000 John Bardeen Award during the society’s annual meeting in Nashville. Chang was recognized for his seminal contributions to the understanding of metal/compound semiconductor interactions.

He has been on the faculty since 1980 and in 1988 was awarded one of the university’s first Wisconsin Distinguished Professorships. The award’s namesake, UW–Madison alumnus John Bardeen, won two Nobel Prizes for his invention of the transistor and work on superconductivity. The award goes to an individual who has made outstanding contributions and is a leader in the field.