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Authorised form of nameCarpenter; Sir; Henry Cort Harold (1875 - 1940); metallurgist
Dates1875 - 1940
NationalityBritish
Place of birthClifton, Bristol, England
Date of birth06 February 1875
Place of deathClyne valley wood, near Swansea, Wales
Date of death13/09/1940
Occupationmetallurgist
Research fieldChemistry
Metallurgy
ActivityEducation:
St Paul's School; Eastbourne College; MA (Oxon); Phd (Leip)
Career:
Employed at Owens College, Manchester (1896); head of the new departments of chemistry and metallurgy at the National Physical Laboratory (1901); chair of metallurgy at the University of Manchester (1906); chair of metallurgy at the Royal School of Mines, South Kensington (1913); played a crucial role in founding the Institute of Metals (1929); wrote extensively, in collaboration with Jon Montath Robertson (1939); died of heart failure whilst on a country walk (1940).
Honours:
Kt 1929
Memberships:
ARSM
Iron and Steel Institute (President 1935–1937)
Institution of Mining and Metallurgy
Awards/Medals:
Bessemer Gold Medal 1931
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election02/05/1918
Age at election43
ProposerCharles Algernon Parsons; William Gowland; [John William Strutt] Rayleigh; Bertram Hopkinson; James Alfred Ewing; Robert John Strutt; William Ernest Dalby; Herbert Brereton Baker; Harold Baily Dixon; Ernest Rutherford; Horace Lamb; Robert Abbott Hadfield
RelationshipsParents: William Lant Carpenter, engineer, of Bristol, and Annie Grace Viret.
Grandfather: William Benjamin Carpenter (FRS 1844).
Spouse: Ethel Mary, daughter of George Henry Lomas, of Brooklands, Cheshire (1905).
Published worksRCN 13829
General contextSpecialist on steels.
Remembered for his studies on the crystallisation of metals.
Royal Society Obituary or MemoirClick to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices)
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1939-1941 vol 3 pp 611-625, plate, by C A Edwards
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/52473145
Royal Society codeNA1274
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
NLB/61/814Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, FRS29 October 1921
RR/28/25Referee's report by Henry Cort Harold Carpenter, on the Bakerian Lecture 'The distortion of an aluminium crystal during a tensile test' by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and C F Elam21 January 1923
RR/28/84Referee's report by Henry Cort Harold Carpenter, on a paper 'Recrystallization and grain-growth in soft metals' by M Cook and Ulick Richardson Evans4 December 1923
RR/41/119Referee's report by Henry Cort Harold Carpenter, on a paper 'The hardening of metals by rotating magnetic fields' by Edward G HerbertDecember 1930
RR/55/1Referee's report by Henry Cort Harold Carpenter, on a paper 'Iron of high purity' by Frank Adcock and Charles A. BristowJuly 1935
NLB/56/877Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter Esquire, FRS20 June 1919
NLB/64/108Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, FRS1 February 1923
RR/42/70Referee's report by Henry Cort Harold Carpenter, on a paper 'The solubility of oxygen in gold' by F J Toole and F M G Johnson18 August 1930
RR/46/51Referee's report by Henry Cort Harold Carpenter, on a paper 'The relation between mean atomic volume and composition in silver-zinc alloys' by E A Owen and Llewelyn Pickup[January 1933]
RR/26/26Referee's report by Walter Rosenhain, on a paper 'The production of single crystals of aluminium and their tensile properties' by Henry Cort Harold Carpenter and Constance F Elam[September 1921]
NLB/64/34Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, FRS22 January 1923
NLB/71/773Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, FRS30 October 1928
NLB/71/73Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, FRS20 December 1927
NLB/61/729Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, FRS18 October 1921
NLB/61/701Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, FRS13 October 1921
RR/53/27Referee's report by Henry Cort Harold Carpenter, on a paper 'Studies on explosive antimony. I—The microscopy of polished surfaces' by C C Coffin and Stuart Johnston[March 1934]
NLB/61/660Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, FRS4 October 1921
NLB/63/581Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Professor [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, FRS09 November 1922
RR/66/12Referee's report by Henry Cort Harold Carpenter, on a paper 'The freezing-point of rhodium' by C R Barber and F H Schofield[1939]
NLB/64/315Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, FRS13 March 1923
RR/65/39Referee's report by Henry Cort Harold Carpenter, on a paper 'An X-ray study of the iron-nickel-aluminium ternary equilibrium diagram' by Albert James Bradley and A TaylorMarch 1938
RR/64/73Referee's report by Henry Cort Harold Carpenter, on a paper 'The superlattice in ß Brass' by Frederic Wood Jones and Charles Sykes[May 1937]
NLB/62/737Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, FRS25 April 1922
CD/62/15Copy letter from [James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Professor [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, FRS12 March 1924
RR/65/38Referee's report by Henry Cort Harold Carpenter, on a paper 'An X-ray investigation of slowly cooled copper-nickel-aluminium alloys' by Albert James Bradley and H LipsonMay 1938
NLB/65/33Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, FRS16 July 1923
NLB/67/67Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, FRS14 October 1924
RR/65/212Referee's report by Henry Cort Harold Carpenter, on a paper 'The diffraction of x-rays by age-hardening aluminium copper alloys' by G D PrestonJune 1938
RR/65/255Referee's report by Henry Cort Harold Carpenter, on a paper 'Specific heat-temperature curves of some age-hardening alloys' by N Swindells and Charles Sykes1938
RR/66/95Referee's report by Henry Cort Harold Carpenter, on a paper 'The microscopic analysis of intermediate phases in some age-hardening alloys' by Marie L V Gayler[July 1939]
RR/67/53Referee's report by Henry Cort Harold Carpenter, on a paper 'Crystal boundaries in tin' by Bruce Chalmers29 December 1939
NLB/64/23Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Dewrance; Cranmore Place, Chislehurst19 January 1923
NLB/63/478Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Sidney Harmer, K.B.E., FRS26 October 1922
NLB/66/297Copy letter from [William Bate Hardy, Secretary] of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, FRS4 April 1924
NLB/65/349Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sydney Pitt Esq.; [Clerk to] The Armourers and Brasiers Company, 81 Coleman Street, E.C.18 October 1923
NLB/64/644Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs. E. and A. Smith and Co. Ltd; Cleckheaton, Yorks.23 May 1923
NLB/65/579Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Members of the Armourers and Brasiers' Company Research Fellowship Committee (Sir [George Thomas] Beilby, Professor [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, Dr [Charles Thomas] Heycock, Dr [Walter] Rosenhain, Dr G. N. Pitt, Mr M. H. Young, Mr [Sydney] Pitt)23 November 1923
NLB/66/175Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, FRS7 March 1924
NLB/67/233Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, FRS17 November 1924
NLB/68/222Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, FRS29 May 1925
NLB/68/197Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, FRS28 May 1925
NLB/66/197Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir George Beilby, FRS13 March 1924
NLB/66/194Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, FRS13 March 1924
NLB/68/944Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, FRS4 December 1925
NLB/66/436Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, FRS8 May 1924
NLB/66/840Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs. G. Bell and Sons Ltd., York House, Portugal Street, W. C. 224 July 1924
NLB/66/927Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, FRS24 September 1924
NLB/69/400Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; the Secretary, Institute of Metals, 36 Victoria Street, S.W.126 March 1926
NLB/71/877Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, FRS26 November 1928
NLB/72/81Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, FRS22 February 1929
CD/62/18Copy letter from [James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Professor [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, FRS4 April 1924
CD/62/16Copy letter from [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter; Royal School of Mines, Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Kensington, London; to James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society26 March 1924
RR/35/86Referee's report by Henry Cort Harold Carpenter, on a paper 'The behaviour of a single crystal of a-iron subjected to alternating torsional stresses' by Herbert John GoughDecember 1927
RR/51/104Referee's report by Henry Cort Harold Carpenter, on a paper 'The latent energy remaining in a metal after cold working' by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and H Quinney[September 1933]
NLB/71/971Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs. Spottiswoode, Ballantyne and Co., Ltd., 1 New Street Square, EC421 December 1928
NLB/72/285Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to H. Pitt Esq18 June 1929
CD/62/17Copy letter from [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter; Royal School of Mines, Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Kensington, London; to James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society2 April 1924
NLB/66/168Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS6 March 1924
NLB/66/318Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh8 April 1924
EC/1918/07Carpenter, Sir Henry Cort Harold: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/61New Letter Book volume 61, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration26 April 1921-11 November 1921
NLB/64New Letter Book volume 64, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration19 January 1923-11 July 1923
RR/30/17Referee's report by Henry Cort Harold Carpenter, on a paper 'The ternary alloy system aluminium–cadmium–zinc' by Norman Frederick Budgen 11 March 1924
RR/35/99Referee's report by Henry Cort Harold Carpenter, on a paper 'Alloys of iron and maganese of low carbon content' by Robert Abbott Hadfield14 March 1927
RR/26/4Referee's report by Henry Cort Harold Carpenter, on a paper 'On the correlation of the chemical constitutions of "true steel" to their micrographic structures' by John Oliver Arnold29 December 1921
RR/32/70Referee's report by Henry Cort Harold Carpenter, on a paper 'The behaviour of single crystals of aluminium under static and repeated stresses' by Herbert John Gough, D Hanson and S J WrightDecember 1925
RR/41/136Referee's report by Henry Cort Harold Carpenter, on a paper 'The optical determination of high metallurgical temperatures - The melting point of iron' by C H M Jenkins and Marie L V GaylerMay 1930
RR/51/93Referee's report by Henry Cort Harold Carpenter, on a paper 'Some peculiarities in the physical properties of iron-aluminium alloys' by Charles Sykes and H Evans[January 1934]
MC/37/23Letter from [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, Imperial College of Science and Technology (Royal College of Mines), South Kensington, London, S.W.7., to Dr J. H. Jeans, The Royal Society, Burlington House, W.112 March 1923
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