Professor Hui-ming Cheng of IMR presents the Lee Hsun award to AME's Professor Terry Langdon.

On April 7, 2009, Professor Terence G. Langdon received the Lee Hsun Lecture Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute for Metals Research (IMR) in Shenyang, China. The award is presented to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of materials science and engineering. The award also included the presentation of a lecture on the processing of ultrafine-grained metals through the application of severe plastic deformation. The Lee Hsun Award is named in honor of Professor Lee Hsun who was the Director of IMR from 1951 until 1983. Professor Lee is best known for his discovery of hydrogen embrittlement in steels during his stay at the University of Sheffield in England in the 1940's.

This was Langdon's second visit to Shenyang. His first visit was in 1986 when he gave a one week course on creep and superplasticity at Northeastern University in Shenyang. A surprise feature of this second visit was the presentation of a photograph (not previously seen by him) showing Langdon standing with the members of his class when he visited in 1986.

	Prof. Langdon (front row, 7th from the right) with the creep and superplasticity class in 1986.