Peter Hirsch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Peter Hirsch

British metallurgist

Date of Birth: 16-Jan-1925

Place of Birth: Berlin

Profession: engineer, physicist, university teacher, metallurgist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Peter Hirsch

  • Sir Peter Bernhard Hirsch HonFRMS FRS (born 16 January 1925) is a figure in British materials science who has made fundamental contributions to the application of transmission electron microscopy to metals.
  • Hirsch attended the Sloane School, Chelsea and St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
  • In 1946 he joined the Crystallography Department of the Cavendish to work for a PhD on work hardening in metals under W.H.
  • Taylor and Lawrence Bragg.
  • He subsequently carried out work, which is still cited, on the structure of coal. In the mid-1950s he pioneered the application of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to metals and developed in detail the theory needed to interpret such images.
  • He was a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge from 1960 to 1966 and was elected an Honorary Fellow of Christ's in 1978.
  • In 1965, with Howie, Whelan, Pashley and Nicholson, he published the text Electron microscopy of thin crystals.
  • The following year he moved to Oxford to take up the Isaac Wolfson Chair in Metallurgy, succeeding William Hume-Rothery.
  • He held this post until his retirement in 1992, building up the Department of Metallurgy (now the Department of Materials) into a world-renowned centre.
  • Among many other honours, he was awarded the 1983 Wolf Foundation Prize in physics.
  • He was elected to the Royal Society in 1963 and knighted in 1975.
  • He is a fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

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