Name David Pettifor | Fields Metallurgy | |
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Alma mater University of Witwatersrand
University of Cambridge Known for Structure Maps
Materials Modelling Books Bonding and Structure of Molecules and Solids Education University of Cambridge, University of the Witwatersrand | ||
Institutions University of Oxford | ||
Professor David Pettifor CBE FRS is the Isaac Wolfson Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
He is 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 is a world authority on materials modelling and helped established the Oxford Materials Modelling Laboratory.
He holds a BSc from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa and holds 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.