- Peter Hirsch
Infobox Scientist
name = Professor Sir Peter Hirsch FRS
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caption = Professor Sir Peter Hirsch
field =Materials Science
work_institutions =University of Oxford
alma_mater =University of Cambridge
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known_for =Transmission Electron Microscopy Physics Sir Peter Hirsch (born
January 16 ,1925 ) is a leading figure in British materials science who has made fundamental contributions to the application oftransmission electron microscopy to metals. He attended the Sloane School, Chelsea and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. In 1946 joined theCrystallography Department of the Cavendish to work for a PhD on work hardening in metals under Lawrence Bragg. He subsequently carried out important work, which is still cited, on the structure ofcoal . In the mid 1950s he pioneered the application oftransmission electron microscopy (TEM) to metals, and developed in detail the theory needed to interpret such images. In 1965, with Howie, Whelan, Pashley and Nicholson, he published the seminal text "Electron microscopy of thin crystals" [P. Hirsch, A. Howie, R. Nicholson, D. W. Pashley and M. J. Whelan (1965/1977) Electron microscopy of thin crystals (Butterworths/Krieger, London/Malabar FL) ISBN 0-88275-376-2] . The following year he moved to Oxford to take up theIsaac Wolfson Chair in Metallurgy, succeedingWilliam 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 theRoyal Society in 1963, and knighted in 1975. He is a fellow ofSt Edmund Hall , Oxford.See also
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