Awarded for lifetime achievement
Dr.-Ing. Michael Pohl, a materials scientist from Bochum, has been presented with the Henry Clifton Sorby Award 2012 for his outstanding lifetime achievement. The award was named after the English natural scientist and is commissioned by the Metallographic Society (IMS). It is the most prestigious award from the IMS. It honours scientists every year who have been carrying out research and teaching for at least 25 years in the areas of Metallurgy and Metallography and are therefore internationally recognised and respected.
Prof. Pohl received the award on 30 July 2012 at the “Microscopy and Microanalysis 2012 Meeting” in Phoenix, Arizona (USA). At the award ceremony, he reported on the complex - and at the same time exciting - field of corrosion-resistant duplex steels.
Biography of Michael Pohl
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Pohl was born in 1943. He studied Ferrous Metallurgy at the RWTH University in Aachen, and completed his PhD there, researching the excretion process of so-called unstable fully austenitic CrNi steels at temperatures between 500 °C and 800 °C. Between 1970 and 1985, he worked as a research associate and assistant director in the communal laboratory for Electron Microscopy at the RWTH Aachen. He came to Ruhr-Universität Bochum in 1985 as a professor for Material Testing.
