Narayan recognized with Lee Hsun Lecture Award

The Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMR CAS) and its Shenyang National Lab for Materials Science has awarded Dr. Jagdish “Jay” Narayan, the John C.C. Fan Family Distinguished Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University, the Lee Hsun Lecture Award.

Narayan, one of only 10 people to receive the award in 2011, is being recognized for his contributions to materials science and technology. The award is given to well-known material scientists around the world and is a component of the Lee Hsun Lecture Series, which was established in 2001 to strengthen cooperation of materials science research and academic exchange.

A leader in the field of materials science and engineering, Narayan’s research has proven pivotal to the understanding of basic phenomena in metals, ceramics and electronic materials and processing. His work includes seminal contributions in laser processing, semiconductor alloys and many other areas.

Narayan’s many honors include being named one of the Materials Research Society’s 34 inaugural Fellows, and he is a life member and Fellow of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, an honor limited to 100 living members. Narayan is also a life member and Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences in India, an honor limited to 100 foreign members. He holds more than 35 patents and has received an Acta Materialia Gold Medal and Prize as well as a Gold Medal from ASM International, the world’s largest materials science and engineering society.

The lecture series was named in honor of the late Dr. Lee Hsun, a member of the CAS and founding director of the IMR in Shenyang, China. Hsun investigated the role of hydrogen in steels and the influence of cold processing on the microstructure and properties of steels. His discovery of hydrogen embrittlement in steels was a great contribution to the development of the iron and steel technology in the world.

Narayan received his master’s degree in 1970 and his doctoral degree in 1971 from the University of California, Berkeley, and his bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1969, Kanpur, India, all in materials science and engineering. He joined the faculty at NC State in 1983.