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British metallurgist and physicist
Solvay Conference on Physics in Brussels 1951. Left to right, sitting: Crussaro, N.P. Allen,
Cauchois , Borelius,
Bragg , Moller, Sietz,
Hollomon , Frank; middle row:
Rathenau ,(
nl ) Koster,
Rudberg ,(
sv ) , Flamache, Goche, Groven,
Orowan ,
Burgers ,
Shockley ,
Guinier , C.S. Smith, Dehlinger, Laval,
Henriot ; top row: Gaspart, Lomer, Cottrell, Homes,
Curien
Sir Alan Howard Cottrell ,
FRS
[1] (17 July 1919 – 15 February 2012) was an English
metallurgist and
physicist . He was also former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government and vice-chancellor of Cambridge University 1977–1979.
Early life
Cottrell was educated at
Moseley Grammar School and the
University of Birmingham , where he gained a
Bachelor of Science degree in 1939 and a PhD for research on
welding in 1942.
[2]
Career
Cottrell joined the staff as a lecturer at Birmingham, being made professor in 1949, and transforming the teaching of the department by emphasising modern concepts of
solid state physics .
[3] In 1955 he moved to
A.E.R.E. Harwell , to become Deputy Head of Metallurgy under
Monty Finniston .
[3]
From 1958 to 1965 Cottrell was
Goldsmiths' Professor of Metallurgy at
Cambridge University , and a fellow of
Christ's College . He later worked for the government in various capacities, ultimately as
Chief Scientific Adviser from 1971 to 1974,
[4] before becoming
Master of
Jesus College, Cambridge , from 1973 to 1986,
[5] and Vice-Chancellor of the university in 1977–1979.
[6]
Death
Cottrell died on 15 February 2012 after a brief illness.
[7]
Awards and honours
He was a member of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences .
[15]
Selected books
Theoretical Structural Metallurgy (1948) (E Arnold; 2nd Revised edition (1 January 1955)) (
ISBN
0713120436 )
Dislocations and Plastic Flows in Crystals (1953) (
ISBN
978-0198512066 )
Superconductivity (1964) (Harwood Academic (Medical, Reference and Social Sc; n edition (December 1964)) (
ISBN
0677000650 )
An Introduction to Metallurgy (1967) (
ISBN
978-0901716934 )
Portrait of Nature : the world as seen by modern science (1975) (
ISBN
978-0684143552 )
How Safe is Nuclear Energy? (1982) (Heinemann Educational Publishers (29 June 1981)) (
ISBN
0435541757 )
Concepts in the Electron Theory of Alloys (1998) (
ISBN
978-1861250759 )
See also
References
^
a
b Smallman, R. E.; Knott, J. F. (2013).
"Sir Alan Cottrell FRS FREng. 17 July 1919 – 15 February 2012" .
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 59 : 93–124.
doi :
10.1098/rsbm.2012.0042 .
^ Charles, J A (February 2012).
"Sir Alan Howard Cottrell ScD, FRS, FREng, LLD (Hon)" (PDF) . Academia Europaea . Retrieved 19 December 2017 .
^
a
b
History of Metallurgy at Birmingham Engineering at Birmingham University
^ Scientists in Whitehall
by Philip Gummett p49, available at
Google books
^
a
b
Masters of Jesus College
Archived 5 July 2009 at the
Wayback Machine
^
a
b
c Kaiser Danner (24 July 2017).
"Alan Cottrell" . Academia Europaea . Retrieved 19 December 2017 .
^
"Sir Alan Cottrell FRS – Christs College Cambridge" . Archived from
the original on 27 May 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2017 .
^ Knott, John (18 March 2012).
"Sir Alan Cottrell obituary" . The Guardian .
ISSN
0261-3077 . Retrieved 19 December 2017 .
^
Hughes archive winners 1989 – 1902 Royal Society
^ The International Who's Who 2004
^
"Corporate Information" . Archived from
the original on 25 May 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2017 .
^
"Sir Alan Howard Cottrell" . American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers . Archived from
the original on 22 September 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2017 .
^
Copley recent winners: 1990 – present day Royal Society
^
Holders of the Copley medal (1731–2005) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press 2004
^
"The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: Alan Cottrell" . Archived from
the original on 14 August 2017. Retrieved 1 May 2009 .
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