Sir Alan Cottrell

Sir Alan Cottrell (born July 17, 1919, Birmingham, Warwickshire [now West Midlands], England—died February 15, 2012, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) was a British metallurgist whose introduction into metallurgy of concepts from thermodynamics and solid-state physics advanced the field. Cottrell received a bachelor’s degree and a doctoral degree from the University of Birmingham in 1939 and 1942, respectively. He was a lecturer in the department of metallurgy at Birmingham from 1943 to 1949, when he became a professor....