David Godfrey 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]
David Godfrey Pettifor CBE FRS | |
|---|---|
 Professor D. G. Pettifor | |
| Born | 9 March 1945 |
| Died | 16 October 2017 (aged 72) |
| Alma mater | University of Witwatersrand University of Cambridge |
| Known for | Structure maps Computational materials science |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Metallurgy |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Electron theory of transition metals |
| Doctoral advisor | Volker Heine |
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, supervised by Volker Heine.[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]
Bibliography
edit- Pettifor, D. G. (1985). The Recursion Method and Its Applications : Proceedings of the Conference, Imperial College, London, England September 13-14, 1984. D. L. Weaire. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-642-82444-9. OCLC 840301154.
- Electron theory in alloy design. D. G. Pettifor, Alan Cottrell, Institute of Materials. London: Institute of Materials. 1992. ISBN 978-1-907625-59-6. OCLC 699513619.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - Pettifor, D. G. (1995). Bonding and structure of molecules and solids. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-851787-4. OCLC 32779944.
References
edit- ^ 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. S2CID 86518869.
- ^ Professor David Pettifor
- ^ a b c "Personal Homepages". Oxford Materials. Archived from the original on 16 October 2017. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
- ^ a b "David Pettifor". St Edmund Hall. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
- ^ "Simply bound to be desirable". Times Higher Education. 9 February 1996. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
- ^ "Queen's Birthday Honours 2005". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 30 September 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
- ^ "Death of David Pettifor | St Edmund Hall". Archived from the original on 27 October 2017. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
External links
edit- Home page Archived 16 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine