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{{Short description|American materials scientist (born 1952)}}
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| name              = Richard D. James
| alma_mater        = [[Johns Hopkins University]] ([[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])<br />[[Brown University]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BcS Engineering]])
| field             = [[Phase transitions]]<br />[[Mechanics]]<br />[[Materials Science]]<br />[[Applied Mathematics]]
| work_institutions = [[University of Minnesota]]<br>[[Brown University]]
| doctoral_advisor  = [[Jerald Ericksen|J.L. Ericksen]]
}}

'''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>{{Cite web |title=Professor Richard D. James Research Group |url=https://james.umn.edu/ |access-date=2024-04-14 |language=en}}</ref>

James is known for his research in [[phase transitions]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship |url=https://cse.umn.edu/aem/news/professor-richard-james-receives-prestigious-vannevar-bush-faculty-fellowship |access-date=2024-09-07 |website=University of Minnesota. |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Metals with memory: Phase-transforming material |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwy8xC3hous |access-date=2024-09-07 |website=College of Science and Engineering, UMN. |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Exploding and weeping ceramics provide path to new shape-shifting material
 |url=https://cse.umn.edu/college/news/exploding-and-weeping-ceramics-provide-path-new-shape-shifting-material |access-date=2024-09-07 |website=College of Science and Engineering. |language=en}}</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 [[Jerald Ericksen|J.L. Ericksen]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Caltech Mechanical and Civil Engineering {{!}} Knowles Lecture {{!}} Archive {{!}} 2012 |url=https://mce.caltech.edu/events/knowles_lecture/2012 |access-date=2022-04-14 |website=Caltech Mechanical and Civil Engineering |language=en}}</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>{{Cite web |title=Theodore von Kármán Prize History |url=https://www.siam.org/programs-initiatives/prizes-awards/major-prizes-lectures/theodore-von-karman-prize/prize-history |access-date=2024-09-07 |website=SIAM Prizes and Recognitions. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. |language=en}}</ref> [[Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Award]] in 2006, the [[William Prager Medal]] in 2008,<ref>{{Cite web |title=William Prager Medal recipients |url=https://socengsci.org/prager-medal/ |website=SES, Society of Engineering Science |access-date=2024-04-14 |language=en}}</ref> and the Brown Engineering Alumni Medal in 2009.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brown Engineering Alumni Medal Winner |url=https://engineering.brown.edu/about/fast-facts/beam-award-winners |access-date=2024-09-07 |website=School of Engineering, Brown University. |language=en}}</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>{{Cite web |title=Warner T. Koiter Medal |url=https://www.asme.org/about-asme/honors-awards/achievement-awards/warner-t-koiter-medal |access-date=2024-09-07 |website=ASME Achievement Awards. American Society for Mechanical Engineers. |language=en}}</ref>

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

==External links==
* [https://cse.umn.edu/aem/richard-d-james Faculty page] at the University of Minnesota.
* [https://experts.umn.edu/en/persons/richard-d-james/publications UMN experts page] at the University of Minnesota.

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