Charles Heycock

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Charles Thomas Heycock (born August 21, 1858 - † June 3, 1931 ) was an English chemist ( physical chemistry , metallurgy ).

Heycock studied at King's College, Cambridge University , where he was lecturer and Goldsmith's reader for metallurgy.

At Cambridge he worked closely with Francis Henry Neville (1847–1915) on experimental research on alloys. They determined the first exact phase diagram of a non-ferrous alloy, the copper-tin system. They used a microscope and a new type of platinum resistance thermometer for high temperatures, developed by Ernest Griffiths and Henry Callendar in Cambridge. Heycock shared a laboratory with Neville in the garden of Sidney Sussex College from 1884 until Neville retired in 1908.

In 1920 he received the Davy Medal . He was a Fellow of the Royal Society .

literature

  • RW Cahn: The coming of material science, Pergamon Press 2001
  • AL Greer in: DED Beales, HB Nisbet (Ed.), Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge: historical essays: in commemoration of the quatercentenary, Boydell Press 1996
personal data
SURNAME Heycock, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heycock, Charles Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English chemist
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1858
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 1931