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Peter Hirsch

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Sir Peter Hirsch FRS
Born16 January 1925(1925-01-16)(age99)
Berlin,Germany
Alma materChrist's College, Cambridge
St Catharine's College, Cambridge
Known forTransmission Electron Microscopy
Physics
RelativesAfua Hirsch(great-niece)
AwardsFranklin 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
FieldsMaterials Science
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
ThesisAn X-ray micro-beam technique(1951)
Doctoral advisorW.H. Taylor[1]
Doctoral studentsMichael 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]

  1. ^ab"Peter Hirsch".11 February 2015.Retrieved15 January2018.
  2. ^"Personal Homepages Professor Sir Peter Hirsch FRS Emeritus Professor Department of Materials Oxford Materials".Archived fromthe originalon 3 April 2012.
  3. ^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.
  4. ^"Peter Hirsch".24 September 2021.
  5. ^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.
  6. ^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
  7. ^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.
  8. ^"Cheat sheet: Afua Hirsch".
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