Professor H. H. Uhlig receives the U. R. Evans Award for 1980

Abstract

In September, at Oxford University, during the 21 st Corrosion Science Symposium of the Corrosion Science Division of the Institution of Corrosion Science and Technology, the Institution's highest honour, the U. R. Evans Award, was presented to Professor H. H. Uhlig. In introducing the presentation Dr A. M. Pritchard, the Chairman of the Corrosion Science Division, reminded the 100 or so delegates who were attending the conference that the Institution of Corrosion Science and Technology U. R. Evans Award had been established by the Corrosion Science Division in 1975, both in recognition of the pioneering contributions of Ulick Richardson Evans to pure and applied corrosion science, and as a means of honouring internationally eminent workefs for outstanding contributions to the field of corrosion scienGe and engineering.

The presentation of the Award to Professor Uhlig was made by Professor G. C. Wood, the President of the Institution. In his citation Professor Wood opened by remarking that, although there were a number of outstanding· corrosion sCientists and engineers in the USA who would grace the U. R. Evans Award, it would come as no surprise to people in the field that the first of their number to be recognised in this way was Professor Uhlig. Professor Wood continued by remarking that in honouring Professor Uhlig the Institution and those present also honoured and remembered Dr Evans, who earlier in the year had finally passed from the scene that he had influenced for so many years.