Peter B. Hirsch
Sir Peter Bernhard Hirsch (born January 16, 1925 in Berlin ) is a British physicist and materials scientist ( metallurgist ).
Life
Hirsch emigrated from Germany as a Jew, went to school in Chelsea and studied metallurgy at Cambridge University , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1946 and his doctorate in 1949 under Lawrence Bragg . He was then a lecturer in Cambridge and from 1966 professor at Oxford University (Isaac Wolfson Chair of Metallurgy). He is a Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford. In 1992 he retired, but remained active as a scientist.
Hirsch is known for his study of crystal defects and the role of dislocations in plasticity. He is one of the pioneers in the use of transmission electron microscopy in metallurgy.
Hirsch received the Von Hippel Award in 1983 and the Wolf Prize in Physics 1983/4. He has been a member of the Royal Society since 1963 , of which he received the Hughes Medal in 1973 and the Royal Medal in 1977. In 1975 he was knighted. In 1989 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea . He is an external member of the US National Academy of Engineering (since 2001) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2005 he received the Lomonosov Gold Medal from the Russian Academy of Sciences , and in 2006 he became a foreign member of this academy.
Fonts (selection)
- with Howie, Whelan, Pashley, Nicholson: Electron Microscopy of Thin Crystals , Butterworths / Krieger 1965, 1977
- Topics in Electron Diffraction and Microscopy of Materials , IOP Publishers, 1999
- with David PG Lidbury: Methods for the Assessment of Structural Integrity of Components and Structures , 2003
Web links
- Peter Hirsch in nndb (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hirsch, Peter B. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hirsch, Peter Bernhard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |