Peter Hirsch
Sir Peter Hirsch FRS | |
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Born | 16 January 1925 | (age99)
Alma mater | Christ's College, Cambridge St Catharine's College, Cambridge |
Known for | Transmission Electron Microscopy Physics |
Relatives | Afua Hirsch(great-niece) |
Awards | Franklin J. Clamer Medal(1970) Hughes Medal(1973) Royal Medal(1977) Wolf Prize in Physics(1983/4) Holweck Meda(1988) Lomonosov Gold Medalof Russian Academy of Sciences (2005) Fellow of the Royal Society |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Materials Science |
Institutions | University of Oxford |
Thesis | An X-ray micro-beam technique(1951) |
Doctoral advisor | W.H. Taylor[1] |
Doctoral students | Michael J Whelan[1] |
Sir Peter Bernhard HirschHonFRMSFRS(born 16 January 1925) is a British metallurgist who has made fundamental contributions to the application oftransmission electron microscopyto metals.[2][3]
Biography
[edit]Born in 1925, Hirsch lived in Germany until 1939; he was one of hundreds of Jewish children that escaped Germany via the variousKindertransportmissions that saved many such children from the impending dangers of World War II andthe Holocaust.[4]
Hirsch attended Sloane Grammar School, Chelsea, andSt Catharine's College, Cambridge.In 1946 he joined theCrystallographyDepartment of theCavendishto work for a PhD on work hardening in metals under W. H. Taylor andLawrence Bragg.[5]He subsequently carried out 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. He was a Fellow ofChrist's College, Cambridgefrom 1960 to 1966 and was elected an Honorary Fellow of Christ's in 1978. In 1965, withHowie,Whelan,Pashley and Nicholson, he published the textElectron microscopy of thin crystals.[6][7]The following year he moved to Oxford to take up theIsaac WolfsonChair in Metallurgy, succeedingWilliam Hume-Rothery.He held this post until his retirement in 1992, building up the Department of Metallurgy (now theDepartment of Materials) into a world-renowned centre. Among many other honours, he was awarded the 1983Wolf Foundation Prize in physics.He was elected to theRoyal Societyin 1963 and knighted in 1975.
Hirsch was elected a member of theNational Academy of Engineeringin 2001 for experimentally establishing the role of dislocations in plastic flow and of electron microscopy as a tool for materials research. He is also a fellow ofSt Edmund Hall,Oxford.
His great-niece is the writer and broadcasterAfua Hirsch.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ab"Peter Hirsch".11 February 2015.Retrieved15 January2018.
- ^"Personal Homepages Professor Sir Peter Hirsch FRS Emeritus Professor Department of Materials Oxford Materials".Archived fromthe originalon 3 April 2012.
- ^Wilkinson, A. J.; Hirsch, P. B. (1997). "Electron diffraction based techniques in scanning electron microscopy of bulk materials".Micron.28(4): 279–308.arXiv:1904.05550.doi:10.1016/S0968-4328(97)00032-2.S2CID118944816.
- ^"Peter Hirsch".24 September 2021.
- ^Kelly, Anthony (1 January 2013)."Lawrence Bragg's interest in the deformation of metals and 1950–1953 in the Cavendish – a worm's-eye view".Acta Crystallographica Section A.69(1): 16–24.doi:10.1107/s0108767312034356.ISSN0108-7673.PMID23250056.
- ^P. Hirsch,A. Howie,R. Nicholson, D. W. Pashley andM. J. Whelan(1965/1977) Electron microscopy of thin crystals (Butterworths/Krieger, London/Malabar FL)ISBN0-88275-376-2
- ^Hirsch, P. B.; Howie, A.; Nicholson, R. B.; Pashley, D. W.; Whelan, M. J.; Marton, L. (1966). "Electron microscopy".Physics Today.19(10): 93.Bibcode:1966PhT....19j..93H.doi:10.1063/1.3047787.
- ^"Cheat sheet: Afua Hirsch".
- 1925 births
- Living people
- Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge
- Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge
- British Jews
- British metallurgists
- English people of German-Jewish descent
- Fellows of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
- Fellows of the Royal Microscopical Society
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Isaac Wolfson Professors of Metallurgy
- Jewish scientists
- Knights Bachelor
- Microscopists
- Recipients of the Lomonosov Gold Medal
- Royal Medal winners
- Wolf Prize in Physics laureates