John Frederick Knott
OBE
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FRS FREng (9 December 1938 – 5 October 2017) was an
English metallurgist
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Metallurgy encompasses both the sc ...
and
materials scientist.
From 1962 to 1966, Knott was a Research Officer at the
Central Electricity Research Laboratories in
Leatherhead in
Surrey
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, after which he became a lecturer in the Department of Materials, Science and Metallurgy at
Cambridge University between 1967 and 1981. In 1990, he moved to the
University of Birmingham, where he was Professor and Head of the School of Metallurgy and Materials until 1996, Dean of Engineering from 1995 to 1998 and the fifth Feeney Professor of Physical Metallurgy between 1994 and 2007.
He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1990 and was awarded their
Leverhulme Medal in 2005 "for his distinguished contributions to the quantitative scientific understanding of
fracture processes in metals and alloys and its engineering applications". He was elected in 1988 as a
Fellow of the
Royal Academy of Engineering
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The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senior ...
.
He died on 5 October 2017 at the age of 78.
References
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1938 births
2017 deaths
People from Bristol
British metallurgists
Academics of the University of Birmingham
Fellows of the Royal Society
Officers of the Order of the British Empire