Atomic Theory for Students of Metallurgy (Institute of Metals monograph and Report Series No. 3)
by Hume-Rothery, William; William Hume-Rothery
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London: The Institute of Metals, 1952. 2nd Revised Edition 1952 . Hardcover Canvas. Good/No Jacket. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. 331 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. No dj. Light fading on spine. Slightly bumped cover board corners. Ink stamp on top edge and inside of front cover board. William Hume-Rothery OBE (1899?1968) was a British metallurgist who studied the constitution of alloys. Hume-Rothery was born the son of lawyer Joseph Hume-Rothery in Worcester Park, Surrey but spent his youth in Cheltenham and was educated at Cheltenham College. In 1917 he was made totally deaf by a virus infection. Nevertheless, he entered Magdalen College, Oxford and obtained a first class Honours degree in chemistry. He also attended the Royal School of Mines and was awarded a PhD. During World War II, he supervised numerous government contracts for work on aluminum and magnesium alloys. After the war he returned to Oxford "to carry on research in intermetallic compounds and problems on the borderland of metallography and chemistry" and remained there for the rest of his working life. In 1938 he was appointed lecturer in metallurgical chemistry. In his research, he concluded that the microstructure of an alloy depends on the sizes of the component atoms, as well as the valency electron concentration, and electrochemical differences. He founded the Department of Metallurgy at the University of Oxford in the 1950s, and was a fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He retired in 1966 and died in 1968. He had married Elizabeth Fea in 1931; they had a daughter Jennifer in 1934. The William Hume-Rothery Award has since 1974 been awarded annually by the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society. (Wikiepedia)
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- Atomic Theory for Students of Metallurgy (Institute of Metals monograph and Report Series No. 3)
- Author
- Hume-Rothery, William; William Hume-Rothery
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- Hardcover Canvas
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- 2nd Revised Edition 1952
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- The Institute of Metals
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1952
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- Science, Metallurgy
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- 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall
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