Professor Takeshi Egami
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee
<p>Dr. Takeshi Egami is UT-ORNL Distinguished Scientist and Professor as well as the Director of the Joint-Institute for Neutron Sciences at the University of Tennessee since 2003. Before moving to Tennessee, he was
Assistant Professor (1973-76), Associate Professor (1976-80) and
Professor (1980-2003) at the Department of
Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania. He is a Fellow of the American
Physical Society, and received J. D. Hanawalt Award, International Union
of Crystallography, 2010, Bertram Eugene Warren Diffraction Physics
Award, Amer. Crystallographic Assoc., 2003, Metal Physics Achievement
Award, Japan Institute of Metals, 1988, and Robert Lansing Hardy Gold
Medal of TMS AIME, 1974. He is a co-author of a widely read book on the
atomic pair-density function (PDF) method, Underneath the Bragg Peak:
Structural Analysis of Complex Materials, with S. J. L. Billinge (2003,
2012), and directed the upgrading project of a neutron powder PDF
diffractometer, NPDF, of the Lujan Center, Los Alamos National
Laboratory (2000-2003). His works have been cited over 12,000 times.
He received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science from the University of
Pennsylvania (1971) and his Bachelor's degree in Applied Physics from the
University of Tokyo (1968).</p>
