Peter Hirsch

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Sir Peter Hirsch FRS
Born16 January 1925 (1925-01-16) (age 99)
Berlin, Germany
Alma materChrist's College, Cambridge
St Catharine's College, Cambridge
Known forTransmission Electron Microscopy
Physics
RelativesAfua Hirsch (great-niece)
AwardsFranklin J. Clamer Medal (1970)
Hughes Medal (1973)
Royal Medal (1977)
Wolf Prize in Physics (1983/4)
Holweck Meda (1988)
Lomonosov Gold Medal of Russian Academy of Sciences (2005)
Fellow of the Royal Society
Scientific career
FieldsMaterials Science
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
ThesisAn X-ray micro-beam technique (1951)
Doctoral advisorW.H. Taylor[1]
Doctoral studentsMichael J Whelan[1]

Sir Peter Bernhard Hirsch HonFRMS FRS (born 16 January 1925) is a British metallurgist who has made fundamental contributions to the application of transmission electron microscopy to metals.[2][3]

  1. ^ a b "Peter Hirsch". 11 February 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Personal Homepages Professor Sir Peter Hirsch FRS Emeritus Professor Department of Materials Oxford Materials". Archived from the original on 3 April 2012.
  3. ^ Wilkinson, A. J.; Hirsch, P. B. (1997). "Electron diffraction based techniques in scanning electron microscopy of bulk materials". Micron. 28 (4): 279–308. arXiv:1904.05550. doi:10.1016/S0968-4328(97)00032-2. S2CID 118944816.