Constance Tipper | |
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| Born | Constance Fligg Elam 16 February 1894 |
| Died | 14 December 1995 (aged 101) |
| Education | Newnham College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Metallurgist |
| Spouse |
George Howard Tipper
(m. 1928) |
Constance Tipper (born Constance Fligg Elam; 16 February 1894 – 14 December 1995) was an English metallurgist and crystallographer.[1][2] She investigated brittle fracture and the ductile-brittle transition of metals used in the construction of warships, and was the first female full-time faculty member at Cambridge University Department of Engineering.
- ^ "Constance Tipper: her life and work". Materials World: 336–337. June 1996.
- ^ "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography – Tipper [née Elam], Constance Fligg". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/60337. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)