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British materials scientist (born 1963)
Philip John Withers
FRS
FREng
[3] (born May 1963)
[2] is the
Regius Professor
[4] of Materials in the
School of Materials, University of Manchester .
[5]
[6]
[7] and Chief Scientist of the
Henry Royce Institute .
Education
Withers was educated at the
University of Cambridge where he was awarded an undergraduate degree in
Natural Sciences (Physics) in 1985 followed by a
PhD degree in the
metallurgy of
Metal Matrix Composites (MMCs) in 1988.
[8]
Career and research
Following his doctorate, Withers was appointed a lecturer at Cambridge before being appointed Professor at the
University of Manchester in 1998.
[9] His research investigates the application of advanced techniques to follow the behaviour of engineering and
natural materials in real time and in 3D.
[5]
[10]
[11]
[12]
In 2008 Withers set up the
Henry Moseley Manchester
X-ray Imaging Facility (MXIF),
[13] which has extensive suites of 3D X-ray Imaging facilities. In 2012, Withers became the inaugural Director of the BP International Centre for Advanced Materials (ICAM) aimed understanding and developing materials across the
energy industry .
[14] ICAM is a collaboration between
BP , The University of Manchester, The University of Cambridge,
Imperial College London and the
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign .
[14]
With Bill Clyne, he is a co-author of the textbook An Introduction to Metal Matrix Composites .
[15] His research has been funded by the
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) .
[16]
Awards and honours
Withers was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2005 and a
Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016 .
[3]
[17] In 2014, the University of Manchester was awarded the
Queen's Anniversary Prize , recognising Withers work at the Manchester X-ray Imaging Facility.
References
^
Philip Withers publications indexed by
Google Scholar
^
a
b
"Philip John Withers" . London:
Companies House . Archived from
the original on 29 May 2016.
^
a
b Anon (2016).
"Professor Philip Withers FRS" . London:
Royal Society . Archived from
the original on 29 April 2016. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ." --
"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies" . Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016 . {{
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^ Anon (2016).
"University receives a royal seal of approval from the Queen" . Manchester: University of Manchester. Archived from
the original on 12 June 2016.
^
a
b
"Prof Philip Withers research" . Manchester: University of Manchester. Archived from
the original on 11 June 2015.
^
Thought Leader – Professor Phillip Withers – School of Material Science on
YouTube
^ M.T. Hutchings; P.J. Withers; T.M. Holden; Torben Lorentzen (2005).
Introduction to the Characterization of Residual Stress by Neutron Diffraction . CRC Press.
ISBN
9780415310000 .
^ Withers, Philip John (1988).
The development of the Eshelby model and its application to metal matrix composites (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
OCLC
557015178 .
^ Nick Smith (2017).
"Interview – Philip Withers, Regius Professor of Materials at the University of Manchester" . IET.
^ Withers, P.J.;
Bhadeshia, H.K.D.H. (2013). "Residual stress. Part 1 – Measurement techniques". Materials Science and Technology . 17 (4): 355–365.
doi :
10.1179/026708301101509980 .
S2CID
17492980 .
^ Withers, P.J.;
Bhadeshia, H.K.D.H. (2013). "Residual stress. Part 2 – Nature and origins". Materials Science and Technology . 17 (4): 366–375.
doi :
10.1179/026708301101510087 .
S2CID
14893933 .
^ Peel, M.; Steuwer, A.; Preuss, M.; Withers, P.J. (2003). "Microstructure, mechanical properties and residual stresses as a function of welding speed in aluminium AA5083 friction stir welds". Acta Materialia . 51 (16): 4791–4801.
Bibcode :
2003AcMat..51.4791P .
doi :
10.1016/S1359-6454(03)00319-7 .
^
"Manchester X-Ray Imaging Facility (MXIF)" . Manchester: University of Manchester. Archived from
the original on 19 April 2016.
^
a
b
"Phil Withers, ICAM Director" . Manchester: icam-online.org. Archived from
the original on 7 July 2015.
^ Clyne, T. W.; Withers, P. J. (1993). An Introduction to Metal Matrix Composites .
Cambridge University Press .
doi :
10.1017/CBO9780511623080 .
ISBN
9780511623080 .
^
"UK Government Grants awarded to Philip Withers" . Swindon:
Research Councils UK . Archived from
the original on 4 May 2016.
^
"Manchester scientists elected as Fellows of Royal Society" . Manchester: University of Manchester. Archived from
the original on 7 May 2016.
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