David R. Clarke

David R. Clarke is a material scientist and the inaugural Extended Tarr Family Professor of Material Science and Applied Physics at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). He is the principal investigator of the Materials Discovery and Applications Group.

The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) considers Clarke's paper "On the Equilibrium Thickness of Intergranular Glass Phases in Ceramic Materials" (1987) one of the 11 best papers in 110 years of publications on ceramics and glasses. Clarke was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1999 "for research on the role of grain boundary phases and their importance to the engineering of technical ceramics". He became a Distinguished Life Member of ACerS in 2009. Provided by Wikipedia