President Kishi
of NIMS was honored recently with the Honda Memorial Award, which
is a prestigious award given to persons who have made distinguished
contributions to the progress of scientific culture based on outstanding
achievements in research related to metal materials and their peripheral
materials. The award to Prof. Kishi was given in recognition of achievements
over the course of many years in research on nondestructive evaluation
of materials and research on evaluation of the reliability of structures.
The Award Ceremony and Memorial Address were held on May 12.