The Combustion Institute has awarded its 2006 Alfred Egerton Gold
Medal to Chung K. (Ed) Law, Princeton's Robert Goddard Professor of
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
The award honors Law's "distinguished, continuing and encouraging
contributions to the field of combustion." Law has conducted
fundamental research on combustion for more than 30 years with major
contributions to the science of how fuels burn and important advances
in propulsion, energy and the environment.
Law has been a faculty member at Princeton since 1988. He was elected
to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002 and served as president
of the Combustion Institute, the major scientific society in his field,
from 2000 to 2004. This year he also delivered the plenary lectures at
the 50th Anniversary of the Japanese Combustion Society and at the
Biennial International Combustion Symposium.
