Michael I. Baskes is an American engineer. Baskes earned a degree in engineering from the

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in 1965, and remained at the institution through 1970 to pursue doctoral study in materials science. He worked at the

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for 29 years, until 2005, then started a teaching career. Baskes held an adjunct professorship at the

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, joined the faculty of

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in 2013, and later moved to the

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as a distinguished research professor. He founded the journal '' Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering'' in 1992 and remained the publication's chief editor until 2005. Baskes was elected a fellow of

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in 2004 " r innovative research, choice of problems both for the scientific importance and career development of his many associates, attention to detail, the originality of thought, and clarity of presentations and generosity of ideas." The

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granted Baskes member status in 2012, " r contributions to the embedded atom method for predicting the structure and properties of metals and alloys."

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