David Pettifor#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1718 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1995 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
David Pettifor passed away October 16, 2017.
Positions Held
- 2010 Emeritus fellowship of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford
- 1992 - 2011 Isaac Wolfson Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Oxford
- 1992 Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
- 1992 Professor of theoretical solid state physics, Imperial College
- 1978 Lecturer, Mathematical Physics group of the Mathematics Department at Imperial College
Fields of Scholarship
- Materials modelling
- Metallurgy
Honours and Awards
- 1965 William Cullen Medal for Most Distinguished Graduate
- 1986 Medal for contributions to alloy theory, National Research Institute of Metals, Tokyo
- 1989 Elegant Work Prize, The Institute of Metals
- 1990 Hume-Rothery Prize, The Institute of Metals
- 1994 Elected FRS
- 1995 Elected to Academia Europea
- 1995 William Hume-Rothery Award, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS)
- 1999 Royal Society Armourers and Brasiers Company Award
- 1990 Hume-Rothery Prize
- 2005 Symposium in honour of his sixtieth birthday, Oxford; proceedings published in Progress in Materials Science52 (2007), 131–464
- 2005 Awarded Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE)
- Named lectures
- 1995 Robert Maddin Lecture in Materials Science, University of Pennsylvania
- 1990 Mott Lecture, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Conference, Institute of Physics
- 1989 Hume-Rothery Memorial Lecture, University of Oxford
