May 14, 2009
Grant Willson, a professor of chemical engineering and chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded the 2009 Gordon E. Moore Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Solid State Science and Technology by the Electrochemical Society (ECS). The award, which includes a prize of $7,500, recognizes Willson’s work on microelectronic materials processing. He will be honored at the 215th Electrochemical Society Meeting this May in San Francisco, Calif. At the meeting, Willson will deliver the Gordon E. Moore Medal Award Lecture on "High Resolution Imaging Technology: A View of the Future."
Willson holds the Rashid Engineering Regents Chair.
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