Cyril Stanley Smith
Cyril Stanley Smith (born October 4, 1903 in Birmingham , † August 25, 1992 in Cambridge ) was a British metallurgist and science historian.
After graduating with a bachelor's degree in metallurgy from the University of Birmingham in 1924, he went to the United States. In 1926 he received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and did research there until 1927 when he became a metallurgist with the American Brass Company, where he remained until 1942. There he researched electrical and thermal conductivity as well as magnetic and mechanical properties of copper alloys and held around 20 US patents. During World War II he worked in the Manhattan Project , where he was in charge of the preparation of the fissile material and other metals. For this he received the Presidential Medal of Merit in 1946. In 1946 he became a professor at the University of Chicago and founding director of its Institute of Metallurgy. Under President Harry Truman , he became one of the nine members of the Atomic Energy Commission's Scientific Advisory Committee and served on the US President's Scientific Advisory Committee. In 1961 he became an institute professor at MIT. There he founded a laboratory for metallurgy in archeology, ethnology and art history and dealt with the history of science in metallurgy. In 1969 he retired.
In 1950 Smith was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1955 to the American Philosophical Society and in 1957 to the National Academy of Sciences . In 1970 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1961 he received the Gold Medal of the American Society of Metals and the Pfizer Award (for A history of metallography 1960). In 1981 he received the Dexter Award , in 1966 the Leonardo da Vinci Award from the Society for the History of Technology, in 1970 the Platinum Medal from the Institute of Metals and in 1991 the Gemant Award from the American Institute of Physics. He was editor of Acta Metallurgica and co-editor of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
Fonts
- Grain Shapes and Other Metallurgical Applications of Topology , Metal interfaces: a seminar on metal interfaces held during the Thirty-third National Metal Congress and Exposition, Detroit, October 13 to 19, 1951, Cleveland: American Society for Metals 1952, pp. 65– 108.
- A History of Metallography: The Development of Ideas on the Structure of Metal before 1890 , Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960
- Sources for the History of the Science of Steel 1532-1786 . Cambridge, Massachusetts: Society for the History of Technology 1968
- From Art to Science . Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press 1980
- A Search for Structure: Selected Essays on Science, Art and History . Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. 1981
- History of Metallography: The Development of Ideas on the Structure of Metals Before 1890 . Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press 1988
- Translator with Martha Teach Gnudi: Vannoccio Biringuccio . The Pirotechnia of Vanoccio Biringuccio , Dover
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 227.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Smith, Cyril Stanley |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British metallurgist and historian of science |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th October 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birmingham |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 25, 1992 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |