{{Short description|American materials scientist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = | image = | image_size = | birth_date = | birth_place = | citizenship = United States | nationality = | fields = Electroceramics | workplaces = Massachusetts Institute of Technology | alma_mater = Columbia University | doctoral_advisor = Arthur Nowick | known_for = | awards = Humboldt Research Award (1997) | website = | children = }} '''Harry L. Tuller''' is an American materials scientist. He is the R. P. Simmons Professor of Ceramics and Electronic Materials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Harry Tuller |url=https://mitibmwatsonailab.mit.edu/people/harry-tuller/ |access-date=2022-06-20 |website=MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab |language=en}}</ref>
== Biography == Tuller received his B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering, and a Ph.D. in solid state engineering from Columbia University under Arthur Nowick.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-05-18 |title=Obituary for Arthur Nowick |url=http://www.apam.columbia.edu/announcements/Nowick_Obituary.html |access-date=2022-06-20 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110518133352/http://www.apam.columbia.edu/announcements/Nowick_Obituary.html |archive-date=18 May 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He did his postdoctoral research at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and joined the MIT faculty in 1975.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Harry L. Tuller |url=https://ceramics.org/award-winners/harry-l-tuller |access-date=2022-06-20 |website=The American Ceramic Society |language=en-US}}</ref> His research has focused on the defects, diffusion and electronic structure of metal oxides and their integration into sensors as well as the microelectromechanical effects in solar cells and fuel cells.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Energie |first=Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und |title=Interview with MIT-Expert Harry Tuller |url=https://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/pubbin/news_seite?nid=13793&sprache=en&seitenid=74699 |access-date=2022-06-20 |website=HZB Website |language=en-GB}}</ref> He also co-founded Boston Systems, a company based on his invention of the micro-machining of silicon carbide.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Harry Tuller wins Egleston Medal for his electroceramics work |url=https://news.mit.edu/2019/mit-harry-tuller-wins-egleston-medal-for-electroceramics-work-0503 |access-date=2022-06-20 |website=MIT News {{!}} Massachusetts Institute of Technology |date=3 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
Tuller received a Humboldt Research Award in 1997 to pursue investigations in nano-structured electro-ceramics at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=March 1997 |title=MRS Bulletin |doi=10.1557/S088376940003267X |url=https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1557/S088376940003267X.pdf |access-date=June 19, 2022}}</ref> He received the Thomas Egleston Medal from the Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science for his contributions to the field of electroceramics in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Harry Tuller wins Egleston Medal for his electroceramics work – Electroceramics |url=http://electroceramics.scripts.mit.edu/harry-tuller-wins-egleston-medal-for-his-electroceramics-work/ |access-date=2022-06-20 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-05-03 |title=Alumni Medalists |url=https://magazine.engineering.columbia.edu/spring-2019/alumni-medalists |access-date=2022-06-20 |website=Magazine |language=en}}</ref>
Tuller has been the founding editor-in-chief of the ''Journal of Electroceramics'' since 1997.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Journal of Electroceramics |url=https://www.springer.com/journal/10832/editors |access-date=2022-06-20 |website=Springer |language=en}}</ref> He was elected a fellow of the Electrochemical Society in 2014 and a fellow of the American Ceramic Society in 1984 and a distinguished life member of the society in 2016.<ref name=":1" />
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