Peter Hirsch#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 548 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.materials.ox.ac.uk/peoplepages/hirsch.html |
Peter Hirsch passed away September 12, 2025.
Positions Held
- Emeritus Professor of Metallurgy, Department of Materials, University of Oxford
- 1966 - 1992 Isaac Wolfson Chair in Metallurgy, University of Oxford
- 1960 - 1966 Fellow of Christ's College, University of Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- Dislocations
- Electron microscopy defects in crystals
- Mechanical properties
- Materials science
Honours and Awards
- 2005 Lomonosov Gold Medal, Russian Academy of Sciences, "for outstanding achievements in solid state physics"
- 2001 Member of the National Academy of Engineering
- Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
- 1987 Honorary Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge
- 1983 Wolf Foundation Prize in physics
- 1982 - 1984 Chairman of the UK Atomic Energy Authority
- 1977 Royal Medal, Royal Society, "In recognition of his distinguished studies of defects in crystals and especially of his elucidation of the process of work hardening.”
- 1975 Knighted
- 1973 Hughes Medal, "for his distinguished contributions to the development of the electron microscope thin film technique for the study of crystal defects and its application to a very wide range of problems in materials science and metallurgy"
