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David Godfrey Pettifor (9 March 1945 – 16 October 2017) was the Isaac Wolfson Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Oxford from 1992 to 2011. He was also a Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
He was the author of a book entitled Bonding and Structure of Molecules and Solids (Oxford University Press). 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.
He was made a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2005. In 1999, he received the Royal Society Armourers and Brasiers' Medal. Other awards include the William Hume-Rothery Award and the Hume-Rothery Prize.
He died on 16 October 2017.
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.
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External links
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