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From Surface Materials to Surface Technologies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2013

Gabor A. Somorjai
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The following article is an edited version of the Von Hippel Award address, given by recipient Gabor A. Somorjaiat the 1997 MRS Fall Meeting. Somorjai received the Materials Research Society's highest honor for “his extraordinary multidisciplinary contributions to the atomic-level understanding of materials surfaces and surface processes with technological importance in hetergeneous catalysis, corrosion, and tribology.”

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MRS Bulletin , Volume 23 , Issue 5 , May 1998 , pp. 11 - 29
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