David Pettifor, Date of Birth, Date of Death

David Pettifor

British metallurgist

Date of Birth: 09-Mar-1945

Date of Death: 17-Oct-2017

Profession: engineer, metallurgist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Professor David Pettifor CBE FRS (9 March 1945 - 16 October 2017) was the Isaac Wolfson Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Oxford from 1992 to 2011.
He was also a Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.He was the author of a book entitled Bonding and Structure of Molecules and Solids (Oxford University Press).
He created "structure maps" which determine which crystal structure an alloy will form.
He was a world authority on materials modelling and helped established the Oxford Materials Modelling Laboratory.
He held a BSc from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.He was made a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2005.
In 1999, he received the Royal Society Armourers and Brasiers' Medal.
Other awards include the William Hume-Rothery Award and the Hume-Rothery Prize.He died on 16 October 2017..