Paris,
France — The recipient of the 2002 CODATA Prize is Professor Arthur D.
Pelton of École Polytechnique, Montreal Canada. Professor Pelton is recognized
for his outstanding achievement in the area of scientific and technical data.
The prize was awarded during the 18th International CODATA Conference held in
Montreal in October.
Professor Pelton is widely acknowledged
as an innovative leader in the field of computational thermodynamics, as applied
to metallurgical and chemical systems of interest in industrial and academic
research. He and his group have led the development of the widely used and acclaimed
FACT system (Facility for the Analysis of Chemical Thermodynamics), comprising
evaluated databases of the thermodynamic properties for thousands of substances
and solutions together with sophisticated software that uses these data to calculate
chemical equilibria information. Today this system provides the most versatile
tool currently available for thermodynamic analysis of industrial processes
and materials design.
Professor Pelton has been associated with the École Polytechnic de Montreal
since 1973 and today is the Co-Director of the Center for Research in Computational
Thermodynamics. He has already received international recognition through a
number of awards including the CALPHAD Gibbs Triangle Award, the EPD Extraction
and Processing Science Award and the Falconbridge Innovation Award. Pelton has
over 200 publications and was a prime contributor to the ASM International/National
Institute of Standards and Technology Alloy Phase Diagram Program.
CODATA, the ICSU Committee on Data for Science and Technology, is an international scientific organization concerned with the collection, management, manipulation, access to and exploitation of quantitative data in science and technology. For over 30 years, CODATA has been at the center of international, multi-lateral, multi-disciplinary cooperation for data activities. Through its task groups, conferences and publications, CODATA enriches the scientific world with the latest advances in data and data technology. The CODATA Secretariat is located in Paris, France, and serves a world-wide network of over 20 national committees and 14 scientific union members, as well as many supporting organizations.
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