David Pettifor

Professor David Pettifor CBE FRS
Born (1945-03-09)9 March 1945
Died 16 October 2017(2017-10-16) (aged 72)
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

  1. ↑ Professor David Pettifor
  2. 1 2 3 "Personal Homepages". Oxford Materials. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
  3. 1 2 "David Pettifor". St Edmund Hall. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
  4. ↑ "Simply bound to be desirable". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
  5. ↑ "Queen's Birthday Honours 2005". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 30 September 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
  6. ↑ https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/news/death-david-pettifor
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