AME Professor Terry Langdon has been selected the 2012 recipient of the Acta Materialia Gold Medal by the Board of Governors of Acta Materialia, Inc. The Gold Medal is an international award to recognize leadership in materials research and one of the most prestegious prizes in the field.

The award is give almost anually with Langdon being the 38^th recipient of the Gold Medal since it was instituted in 1974. The list of recipients is a Who's Who of materials science.

Professor Langdon is well qualified for this award. He had published over 700 papers in the field. In the 1980's and 1990's he was a major contributor in superplasticity research. In 1993 he and his collaborators published the first work outside of Russia on the processing and properties of ultrafine-grained metals fabricated through severe plastic deformation. More recently he has been a leader in Equal Channel Angular Pressing (ECAP) and High Pressure Torsion (HPT) research.

Awarding of the Acta Materialia Gold Medal is administered by the Board of Directors of Acta Materialia, Inc. with partial financial support from the publisher Elsevier, Ltd. Acta Materialia, Inc. is supported by the scientific societies ASM International and The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society and is affiliated with an additional 35 scientific societies from around the world in related disciplines. Acta Materialia's primary function is to publish the journals Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, and Acta Biomaterialia.

Professor Langdon will receive the gold medal, an inscribed certificate, and a check at an award ceremony at an Acta Materialia Gold Medal Symposium, held as part of the E-MRS Fall Meeting in Warsaw, Poland, on 17-21 September, 2012.