| 词条 | Hume-Rothery, William |
| 释义 | Hume-Rothery, William English metallurgist born May 15, 1899, Worcester Park, Surrey, Eng. died Sept. 27, 1968, Oxford, Oxfordshire British founder of scientific metallurgy, internationally known for his work on the formation of alloys and intermetallic compounds. Originally planning on a military career, Hume-Rothery entered the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, but when an illness left him completely deaf, he transferred to Oxford, where he received an M.A. in chemistry in 1926. At the Royal School of Mines, London, he received a Ph.D. in metallurgy in 1926. He spent his professional life mostly at Oxford, studying the structures of copper, silver, and iron alloys and discovering the proportions in which metals form substitutional and interstitial alloys. |
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