Richard D. James (scientist)

Richard D. James (born 1952) is a mechanician and materials scientist. He is currently the Russell J. Penrose Professor and Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

James is known for his research in phase transitions,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> especially reversible transformation in martensitic materials, including cases in which the phase transition is highly reversible and one phase is strongly magnetic or strongly ferroelectric.

Education and career

James was educated at Brown University in 1974 and received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1979 under the direction of J.L. Ericksen.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He was a professor of engineering at Brown University before moving to the University of Minnesota in 1985.

Awards and honors

James has received several awards, including the Theodore von Kármán Prize in 2014,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Award in 2006, the William Prager Medal in 2008,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and the Brown Engineering Alumni Medal in 2009.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The ASME awarded him the Warner T. Koiter Medal in 2008 for "pioneering the modern vision of phase transformations and materials instabilities in solids, explaining how microstructures form and evolve, and demonstrating how to take advantage of this to design new active materials".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

With John M. Ball, he has served as one of the chief editors of the Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis.

External links

• Faculty page at the University of Minnesota.
• UMN experts page at the University of Minnesota.