AME's Professor Terry Langdon had been elected to the European Academy of Sciences and has won the Academy's Blaise Pascal Medal for Science and Technology for 2008. The award is presented to a maximum of 6 individuals per year selected by the Academy's Scientific Commnitte to recognize outstanding personal contributions to science and technology and to promote excellence in research and education. In selecting Langdon for this honor, the committee cited his "outstanding achievements and pioneering research in the processing of ultrafine-grained metals by severe plastic deformation and for fundamental investigations into the properties of materials processed by equal-channel angular pressing and, more recently, [by] high-pressure torsion." They also noted his more than 500 scientific papers in refereed journals, his collaboration with more than 300 different coauthors, and the outstanding number of citations received by his papers.

Professor Langdon received the medal at the Ceremony of Awards held on November 7, at the Palace of Academies in Brussels in connection with the Academy's General Assembly.

Mady and Prof. Terry Langdon pose after his receiving the Blaise Pascal Medal in Materials Science from the European Academy of Sciences at the Palace of Academies on November 7, 2008.