| Authorised form of name | Orowan; Egon (1902 - 1989) |
| Dates | 1902 - 1989 |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Date of birth | 02/08/1902 |
| Date of death | 03/08/1989 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/03/1947 |
| Age at election | 44 |
| Sources | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1995 vol 41 pp 315-340, plate, by F R N Nabarro and A S Argon
References:
N N Greenwood and J A Spink, 'An antipodean laboratory of remarkable distinction' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 85-105 |
| Royal Society code | NA2088 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1947/20 | Orowan, Egon: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| PB/3/2/4/14/33 | Correspondence with Ergon Orowan on continental drift | 1964 |
| IM/GA/WS/2705 | Orowan, Egon | nd |
| RR/65/208 | Referee's report by Herbert John Gough, on a paper 'Theory of the fatigue of metals' by Egon Orowan | 21 July 1938 |
| RR/65/207 | Referee's report by Cecil Henry Desch, on a paper 'Theory of the fatigue of metals' by Egon Orowan | February 1939 |
| RR/72/13 | Referee's report by Egon Orowan, on a paper 'The specific energy of crystal boundaries in tin' by K T Aust and B Chalmers | 1949 |
| RR/71/103 | Referee's report by Egon Orowan, on a paper 'Dislocations as a cause of mechanical damping in metals' by John Douglas Eshelby | [1948] |
| RR/72/121 | Referee's report by Egon Orowan, on a paper 'One-dimensional dislocations - III. Influence of the second harmonic term in the potential representation, on the properties of the model' by Frederick Charles Frank and J H van der Merwe | 1949 |
| PB/1/33/1/7 | Nobel Prize | 1948 |
| IM/003388 | Orowan, Egon | April 1966 |
| IM/003387 | Orowan, Egon | 1960 |