Edwin 'Ted' Smith FRS (28 July 1931 — 4 July 2010) was a

metallurgy Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys. Metallurgy encompasses both the sc ...

scientist whose career included roles in both industry and academia. His first metallurgy role was as a postgraduate student in the Department of Metallurgy at

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. His early industry career work included roles at the

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(AEI) Research Laboratory, Aldermaston, and at the

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Research Laboratories in Leatherhead. Smith became Professor of Metallurgy at the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

in 1968, and was involved in the process of joining his department with the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology's (UMIST) own Department of Metallurgy in 1975. Smith was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Manchester from 1983–1985, and then Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University from 1985–1988. He was elected Fellow of the

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in 1996.

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1931 births 2010 deaths British metallurgists Academics of the University of Manchester Academics of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology Fellows of the Royal Society {{uk-bio-stub