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Bruce Chalmers
Pages 76-89

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... Metallurgical Chemistry in the National Physical Laboratory. Rosenhain became well known for cleveloping one of the earliest moclels for intercrystalline boundary struc 77
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... Bruce greatly acimirec! Anciracle's way with research students, which was to have them work with him rather than for him and to allocate credit fairly for any discoveries.
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... he clevisec! high precision measurements of plastic creep rates of single crystals at low stress levels.
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... Early in 1944 he was appointed head of the Metallurgy Division of the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, where he was concernec! with problems of materials failures, as in aircraft crashes, en c!
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... He en c! student Karl Aust at Toronto grew sets of tin en c!
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... Among the physicists en c! physical chemists who were most prominent in effecting this transformation were Frederick Seitz, Clarence Zener, Conyers Herring, Charles Frank, Nevill Mott, W
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... with the commercial aspects of publishing scientific articles. At Harvard, Bruce continues!
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... At Harvard, the activists sought to have the university administration en c! faculty publicly denounce the United States' Vietnam policy and to bar the Reserve Officer Training Corps from the campus.
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... a process for casting silicon in a single crystal ribbon form, which might be suitable for photovoltaic applications en c! which conic!
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... In 1986, as vicechairman of the Falmouth Tricentennial Committee, he wrote an intriguing history of the town (publisher! in the Book of Falmouth)
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... I thank Professor Tohn Hutchinson of Harvard University and Kalies Turis, now vice-president for research at ASK Americas, for supply ing information on the status of the silicon ribbon strip casting process.
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... The topography of solid-liquid interfaces of metal crystals growing from the melt.
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... In Structure and Properties of Metal Surfaces. In honor of Professor Honda, Japan Honda Memrial Commemoration.


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