Alan Cottrell, a fundamental metallurgist. In memoriam

Abstract

We recall the early scientific achievements of the great fundamental metallurgist Sir Alan Howard Cottrell (1919–2012), until about 1960, as a supplement to the Tributes written by his friends and colleagues from Cambridge for his funeral.

Keywords:

• metallurgy
• plasticity
• fracture
• dislocations

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Corrigendum

Acknowledgment

The authors wish to thank David Brandon for several interesting suggestions and discussions.

Notes

This article was originally published with errors. This version has been corrected. Please see erratum/corrigendum (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14786435.2013.849431).