FROM GIBBSIAN THERMODYNAMICS TO ELECTRONIC-STRUCTURE - NONEMPIRICAL STUDIES OF ALLOY PHASE-EQUILIBRIA

The following is an edited version of the David Turnbull Lectureship a ddress, given by recipient Didier R. de Fontaine at the 1995 MRS Fall Meeting. De Fontaine received the lectureship ''in recognition of fund amental contributions and insights in the fields of order/disorder phe nomena in materials and computational techniques for phase diagrams. ' 'De Fontaine is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering at the University of California-Berkeley and hold s a joint appointment with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.