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Sweden (Category 1: Design and behaviour of structures), Mr Wangen Lin, USA (Category 2: Behaviour of materials during welding), and Dr Xian, China (Category 3: Welding

Technology and related areas). Research became of such importance that several other IIW awards were introduced for outstanding achievements in fundamental research in welding science and its allied processes. These included the Yoshiaki Arata Award and Evgeny Paton Prize for distinguished contribution to the field of welding science and technology. The Yoshiaki Arata Award was interesting since

it was in commemoration of Prof. Yoshiaki Arata of Japan who was instrumental in setting up and chairing the StudyGroup WeldingResearch Strategy and Collaboration in 1984 in order to promote international collaboration and interaction. 17 The first Arata award in 1993 was to academician Prof. Dr-Ing. Ivan Hrivnak (Slovakia), Chair of C-IX 1987-93, who pioneered transmission electron microscopy in Slovakia for welded joints. 18 The Evgeny Paton Prize was another that honoured one of the great patriarchs of welding and was sponsored by the National Welding Committee of the Ukraine for an individual who had made a significant contribution to science and technology through a lifetime of dedication to applied research and development. The first award went to Dr Stephen Maddox of the UK in 2000. The E.O. Paton Electric Welding Institute in Kiev, Ukraine, Yoshiaki Arata

was one of the foremost welding research organisations in the world and deserves special mention at this point for the outstanding development of Magnetically Impelled Arc Butt (MIAB) welding in the 1990s, a solid phase process for joining hollow sections and circular and non-circular metallic components. Another who epitomised excellence in a lifetime of research was Dr Allan Sanderson of TWI, who stood on the rostrum to receive the Evgeny Paton prize in 2006. Sanderson first started research into electron beam welding when he was a young graduate in 1966. He continued to work on electron beam technology for welding for 40 years including developments in the welding

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of off-shore wind turbines and was a deserved recipient of the Evgeny Paton prize. 19 The awards for achievement in science featured prominently at IIW Annual Assemblies, as did the presentation of papers at IIW International Conferences and Congresses on research and innovation in welding technology by leaders in their respective

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