Sir Harshad "Harry" Kumar Dharamshi Hansraj Bhadeshia (born 27 November 1953) is an Indian-British

metallurgist 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 ...

and Emeritus

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Professor of

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at the

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. In 2022 he joined Queen Mary University of London as Professor of Metallurgy.

Education and early life

Bhadeshia was born in

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to Indian parents, who were carpenters. During the 19th century, many Indian workers emigrated to Kenya for building bridges, railway tracks, shops etc. Bhadeshia's interest in science started when he visited the battery shop where his father worked. He was educated at the Kongoni Primary School followed by the Highway Secondary School, both in Nairobi. He moved with his family to the United Kingdom in 1970 and joined the British Oxygen Company in Edmonton as a technician in their metallurgical quality control laboratory. This allowed him study part-time at the East Ham College of Technology in London, for the Ordinary National Certificate in Science. He then moved to the quality control laboratory at Murex Welding Processes, and they sponsored him to study at the

City of London Polytechnic London Guildhall University was a university in the United Kingdom from 1992 to 2002, established when the City of London Polytechnic was awarded university status. On 1 August 2002, it merged with the University of North London to form Londo ...

where he graduated with a

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degree in 1976. Professor

Robert Honeycombe Sir Robert William Kerr Honeycombe, (2 May 1921 – 14 September 2007) was a Goldsmiths' Professor of Metallurgy and Professor Emeritus of the University of Cambridge. He was an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Born in Melbourne, Austra ...

was at the time the External Examiner for the course at the Polytechnic and encouraged him to join his research group at the University of Cambridge. He was admitted to the

to work on the theory and significance of retained

austenite Austenite, also known as gamma-phase iron (γ-Fe), is a metallic, non-magnetic allotrope of iron or a solid solution of iron with an alloying element. In plain-carbon steel, austenite exists above the critical eutectoid temperature of 1000 K ...

in steels and obtained his PhD in 1980 supervised by David V. Edmonds, in Honeycombe's Steel Research Group. The nature of austenite that is retained depends on the preceding phase transformations - as a research student he focused therefore on unravelling the choreography of atoms when austenite undergoes bainitic or martensitic transformation.

Career and research

Bhadeshia's research is concerned with the theory of solid-state transformations in metals, particularly multicomponent steels, with the goal of creating novel alloys and processes with the minimum use of resources. Following his PhD, he worked as a

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Research Fellow until 1981 and has been part of the academic staff at the University of Cambridge since then. He is the author or co-author of more than 650 published papers in the field of

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and several books. In the 1990s, he worked with

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on a

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-free, silicon-rich bainitic steel that was used for rails in the

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and later on a high-performance armour steel for the British

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. In 2006, he was awarded the Bessemer Gold Medal by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining for "outstanding services to the Steel Industry". In November 2008, he was appointed the first Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy following a donation by Tata Steel to endow this Chair on a permanent basis at the University of Cambridge and he established and took the lead of the new "SKF University Technology Centre", between

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and the University of Cambridge to conduct research in the field of the physical metallurgy of bearing steels, over the period 2009–2019. During 2005–18, as the Founding Director of the Computational Metallurgy Laboratory, he helped create the Graduate Institute for Ferrous Technology at POSTECH in the Republic of Korea.

Teaching

Bhadeshia has developed a wide range of freely accessible teaching materials on metallurgy and associated subjects. The subject matters cover crystallography, metals and alloys, steels in particular, phase transformation theory, thermodynamics, kinetics, mathematical modelling in materials science, information theory, process modelling, thermal analysis, ethics and natural philosophy. The resources include lecture notes, slides, videos, algorithms, review articles, books, cartoons, audio files, experimental data archives, image libraries, seminars, examples classes, question sheets and answers, automated learning (MOOCS), and a diverse range of other electronic resources. A YouTube channel (bhadeshia123) contains about 1300 educational videos. The resources are archived as a permanent record by th
British Library
in an open access mode. For "outstanding teaching activities", he was conferred the Adams Memorial Membership Award of the American Welding Society during 2007.

Editorial positions

Bhadhesia has served as editor for the following journals: * ''Materials Science and Engineering: A'' * ''Materials Science and Technology'' * ''Science and Technology of Welding and Joining''

Awards and honours

* 1992: Hume Rothery Prize * 1994: Rosenhain Medal & Prize * 1997: Royal Society Armourers and Brasiers' Company Prize * 1998: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: * 2001: Reaumur Medal of the French Society of Metallurgy and Materials * 2002: Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) * 2003: Aditya Birla Chair, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore * 2004: Foreign Fellow of the

Indian National Academy of Engineering The Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), founded in 1987, comprises India's engineers, engineer-scientists and technologists covering the entire spectrum of engineering disciplines. The Academy is registered under the Societies Reg ...

* 2006:

Bessemer Gold Medal The Bessemer Gold Medal is awarded annually by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) "for outstanding services to the steel industry, to the inventor or designer of any significant innovation in the process employed in the manufact ...

* 2008: Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy * 2008: Fellow of the American Welding Society * 2009: Director of the SKF University Technology Centre * 2010: Honorary Member of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan * 2015:

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in the Queen's

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* 2016: Honorary Fellowship of The Welding Institute * 2017: Adolf Martens Medal, Germany * 2017: Membre d'Honneur de la SF2M * 2018: Foreign Fellow, The National Academy of Sciences, India * 2019: Lee Hsun Lecture Award, Institute of Metals Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences * 2022: Henry Clifton Sorby Award, International Metallographic Society, ASM International

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bhadeshia, Harshad Living people 1953 births British metallurgists Fellows of Darwin College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Foreign Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy Knights Bachelor Alumni of London Metropolitan University Alumni of the University of Cambridge Kenyan emigrants to the United Kingdom Bessemer Gold Medal Fellows of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining