Anthony Kelly#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1020 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1991 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Anthony Kelly passed away June 4, 2014.
Positions Held
- 1995 Emeritus professor and distinguished research fellow in the department of materials science and technology, University of Cambridge
- 1975 - 1994 Vice-chancellor and Chief Executive, University of Surrey
- 1967 - 1975 managerial roles within government science and industry
- 1959 - 1967 University lecturer and founding fellow of Churchill College
- 1956 - 1959 Assistant and then associate professor of metallurgy and materials science at Northwestern University, Chicago
- 1955 ICI fellow at the University of Birmingham
- 1953 - 1955 Research associate at the University of Illinois
Fields of Scholarship
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Honours and Awards
- 1973 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1979 Fellowship of Engineering (now the Royal Academy of Engineering)
- 1986 Member of the National Academy of Engineering of the USA
- 1990 Member of Academia Europaea
- 1992 appointed a Knight of St Gregory
- Recipient of many international prizes and awards and honorary doctorates from Birmingham, Reading and Surrey, Hanyan University in South Korea and Navarra University in Spain
