David Pettifor

Professor David Pettifor CBE FRS[1] (9 March 1945 - 16 October 2017[2]) was the Isaac Wolfson Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Oxford from 1992 to 2011.[3] He was also a Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.[4]

Professor David Pettifor CBE FRS
Born(1945-03-09)9 March 1945
Died16 October 2017(2017-10-16) (aged 72)
Alma materUniversity of Witwatersrand
University of Cambridge
Known forStructure Maps
Materials Modelling
Scientific career
FieldsMetallurgy
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford

He was the author of a book entitled Bonding and Structure of Molecules and Solids (Oxford University Press).[5] 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.[4]

He was made a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2005.[6] In 1999, he received the Royal Society Armourers and Brasiers' Medal.[3] Other awards include the William Hume-Rothery Award and the Hume-Rothery Prize.[3]

He died on 16 October 2017.[7]

References
  1. Sutton, Adrian P.; Drautz, Ralf; Vitek, Vaclav (2019). "David Godfrey Pettifor. 9 March 1945—16 October 2017". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 66: 329–353. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2018.0038. hdl:10044/1/66793.
  2. Professor David Pettifor
  3. "Personal Homepages". Oxford Materials. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
  4. "David Pettifor". St Edmund Hall. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
  5. "Simply bound to be desirable". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
  6. "Queen's Birthday Honours 2005". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 30 September 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
  7. https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/news/death-david-pettifor
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