David Pettifor

David Godfrey Pettifor CBE FRS
Professor D. G. Pettifor
Born	(1945-03-09)9 March 1945 Keighley, England, UK
Died	16 October 2017(2017-10-16) (aged 72)
Alma mater	University of Witwatersrand University of Cambridge
Known for	Structure maps Computational materials science
Scientific career
Fields	Metallurgy
Institutions	University of Oxford
Thesis	Electron theory of transition metals
Doctoral advisor	Volker Heine

David Godfrey Pettifor CBE FRS (9 March 1945 – 16 October 2017) was the Isaac Wolfson Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Oxford from 1992 to 2011. He was also a Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

He was the author of a book entitled Bonding and Structure of Molecules and Solids (Oxford University Press). He created "structure maps" which determine which crystal structure an alloy will form. He was a world authority on materials modelling and helped established the Oxford Materials Modelling Laboratory.

He held a BSc from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa and a PhD from the University of Cambridge, supervised by Volker Heine.

He was made a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2005. In 1999, he received the Royal Society Armourers and Brasiers' Medal. Other awards include the William Hume-Rothery Award and the Hume-Rothery Prize.

He died on 16 October 2017.

Bibliography

• Pettifor, D. G. (1985). The Recursion Method and Its Applications : Proceedings of the Conference, Imperial College, London, England September 13-14, 1984. D. L. Weaire. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-642-82444-9. OCLC 840301154.
• Electron theory in alloy design. D. G. Pettifor, Alan Cottrell, Institute of Materials. London: Institute of Materials. 1992. ISBN 978-1-907625-59-6. OCLC 699513619.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• Pettifor, D. G. (1995). Bonding and structure of molecules and solids. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-851787-4. OCLC 32779944.

External links

• Home page Archived 16 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine