Prestigious John A. Tallmadge Award in Coating Technology is awarded to Professor Wilhelm Schabel

Atlanta, USA, September 2024: The prestigious John A. Tallmadge Award in Coating Technology is awarded to Professor Wilhelm Schabel from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The Tallmadge Award recognizes an individual's significant contributions to coating technology and science. The prize is awarded every two years by the International Society of Coating Science and Technology (ISCST) and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE) to outstanding international personalities.

Picture of the awardee (W. Schabel) and ISCST President (T. Lightfoot) & Tallmadge Plaque 2024

The Tallmadge Award 2024 was presented with a laudation by the President of the ISCST Dr. Ted Lightfoot at the 22nd ISCST Symposium in Atlanta on the 10. September 2024.

From the Tallmadge Laudation speech of the ISCST president (Ted Lightfoot):

“…. The Tallmadge Award is considered to be the highest ranked award in Coating Science and it is always a tough decision of the Tallmadge Award Committee and I believe this year it was an incredible tough decision between all the excellent nominated international Scientists and we decided that the winner is Professor Wilhelm Schabel from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. [...] This years winner, Professor Schabel succeeded to build up probably the world leading “Center of Excellence in Drying Technology” and broaden this to an “Excellence in Coating Technology”, combined in a “Thin Fim Technology” Professorship. [...]"

From the acceptance speech of the awardee (Wilhelm Schabel):

"This is a great honor and I want to express my gratitude to be now part of this famous list of Tallmadge awardees, all those great names of scientists from famous books and publications I know and have admired since I was a student. […] Thank you to my colleague Philip Scharfer and the whole Thin Film Technology (TFT) team for our international acknowledged research in the last 15 years since we started TFT in 2009. I would like to thank the ISCST Tallmadge Award Committee and my international supporters form Switzerland/Fribourg (Prof. G. Gugler), England/Univ. Cambridge (Prof. A. Routh), Germany/FAU Erlangen (Prof. F. Durst) & Ludwigshafen/BASF (Prof. Kleine-Jäger) and from Canada/Western University (Prof. A. Hrymak)."

More information: “Tallmadge Awardees of the ISCST” & "POLiS PI Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Schabel awarded with the Tallmadge Award 2024"