David Pettifor
Professor David Pettifor CBE FRS | |
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Born | 9 March 1945 |
Died | 16 October 2017 72) | (aged
Alma mater |
University of Witwatersrand University of Cambridge |
Known for |
Structure Maps Materials Modelling |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Metallurgy |
Institutions | University of Oxford |
Professor David Pettifor CBE FRS (9 March 1945 - 16 October 2017[1]) was the Isaac Wolfson Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Oxford from 1992 to 2011.[2] He was also a Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.[3]
He was the author of a book entitled Bonding and Structure of Molecules and Solids (Oxford University Press).[4] He created "structure maps" which determine which crystal structure an alloy will form. He was a world authority on materials modelling and helped established the Oxford Materials Modelling Laboratory.
He held a BSc from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.[3]
He was made a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2005.[5] In 1999, he received the Royal Society Armourers and Brasiers' Medal.[2] Other awards include the William Hume-Rothery Award and the Hume-Rothery Prize.[2]
He died on 16 October 2017.[6].
References
- ↑ Professor David Pettifor
- 1 2 3 "Personal Homepages". Oxford Materials. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
- 1 2 "David Pettifor". St Edmund Hall. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
- ↑ "Simply bound to be desirable". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
- ↑ "Queen's Birthday Honours 2005". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 30 September 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
- ↑ https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/news/death-david-pettifor