Alan Cottrell

Sir Alan Howard Cottrell ( * July 17, 1919, † 15 February 2012) was a British metallurgist and physicist.

Life and work

Cottrell studied at the University of Birmingham and received his doctorate there in 1942.

It was from 1958 to 1965 Goldsmiths' professor of metallurgy at the University of Cambridge and a member ( "Fellow" ) of Christ's College. He then worked in various activities for the government, finally from 1971 to 1974 as Chief Scientific Adviser. He was from 1973 to 1986 Master of Jesus College, Cambridge from 1977 to 1979 and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

Cottrell was elected in 1955 a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1961 he was with the Hughes Medal and in 1996 with the Copley Medal and the Von Hippel Award. In 1971 he was knighted.

Works

• Theoretical Structural Metallurgy (1948 )
• Dislocations and Plastic flow in Crystals (1953 )
• Superconductivity (1964 )
• An Introduction to Metallurgy (1967 )
• Portrait of Nature: the world as seen by modern science ( 1975)
• How Safe is Nuclear Energy? (1982)
• Concepts in the Electron Theory of Alloys (1998)