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Sir Alan Cottrell
British metallurgist
Also known as: Sir Alan Howard Cottrell
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- In full:
- Sir Alan Howard Cottrell
- Born:
- July 17, 1919, Birmingham, Warwickshire [now West Midlands], England
- Died:
- February 15, 2012, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (aged 92)
- Awards And Honors:
- Copley Medal (1996)
- Notable Works:
- “Theoretical Structural Metallurgy”
- Subjects Of Study:
- Wigner effect
Sir Alan Cottrell (born July 17, 1919, Birmingham, Warwickshire [now West Midlands], England—died February 15, 2012, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) British metallurgist whose introduction into metallurgy of concepts from thermodynamics and solid-state physics advanced the field. Cottrell received a bachelor’s degree and a doctoral degree from the University of Birmingham in 1939 and 1942, respectively. He was a lecturer in the department of metallurgy at Birmingham from 1943 to 1949, when he became a professor. During the winter of 1946–47, Cottrell could not work on his experiments at the university, because the heating had been turned off for lack of coal. Searching ...(100 of 376 words)