David Pettifor

David Godfrey Pettifor CBE FRS[1] (9 March 1945 – 16 October 2017[2]) was the Isaac Wolfson Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Oxford from 1992 to 2011.[3] He was also a Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.[4]

David Godfrey Pettifor CBE FRS
Professor D. G. Pettifor
Born(1945-03-09)9 March 1945
Keighley, England, UK
Died16 October 2017(2017-10-16) (aged 72)
Alma materUniversity of Witwatersrand
University of Cambridge
Known forStructure maps
Computational materials science
Scientific career
FieldsMetallurgy
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
ThesisElectron theory of transition metals
Doctoral advisorVolker Heine

He was the author of a book entitled Bonding and Structure of Molecules and Solids (Oxford University Press).[5] 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, supervised by Volker Heine.[4]

He was made a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2005.[6] In 1999, he received the Royal Society Armourers and Brasiers' Medal.[3] Other awards include the William Hume-Rothery Award and the Hume-Rothery Prize.[3]

He died on 16 October 2017.[7]

Bibliography
  • Pettifor, D. G. (1985). The Recursion Method and Its Applications : Proceedings of the Conference, Imperial College, London, England September 13-14, 1984. D. L. Weaire. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-642-82444-9. OCLC 840301154.
  • Electron theory in alloy design. D. G. Pettifor, Alan Cottrell, Institute of Materials. London: Institute of Materials. 1992. ISBN 978-1-907625-59-6. OCLC 699513619.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  • Pettifor, D. G. (1995). Bonding and structure of molecules and solids. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-851787-4. OCLC 32779944.

References
  1. Sutton, Adrian P.; Drautz, Ralf; Vitek, Vaclav (2019). "David Godfrey Pettifor. 9 March 1945—16 October 2017". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 66: 329–353. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2018.0038. hdl:10044/1/66793. S2CID 86518869.
  2. Professor David Pettifor
  3. "Personal Homepages". Oxford Materials. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
  4. "David Pettifor". St Edmund Hall. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
  5. "Simply bound to be desirable". Times Higher Education. 9 February 1996. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
  6. "Queen's Birthday Honours 2005". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 30 September 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
  7. "Death of David Pettifor | St Edmund Hall". Archived from the original on 27 October 2017. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
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