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Authorised form of nameSykes; Sir; Charles (1905 - 1982)
Dates1905 - 1982
Date of birth27/02/1905
Date of death29/01/1982
ActivityEducation:
DSc, PhD (Sheffield)
Honours:
CBE 1956; Kt 1964
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election18/03/1943
Age at election38
SourcesObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1983 vol 29 pp 553-583, plate, by T E Allibone
Royal Society codeNA2245
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
IM/004475Sykes, Sir Charlesnd
IM/004476Sykes, Sir Charlesnd
RR/70/55Letter from Charles Sykes, on a paper 'The thermal etching of silver' by B Chalmers, R King and R Shuttleworth12 January 1948
RR/70/33Referee's report by Charles Sykes, on a paper 'On the inhomogeneity of plastic deformation in the crystals of an aggregate' by W Boas and M E Hargreaves1947
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]
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/67/66Letter from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'Precipitation in the alloys of copper and silver' by Charles Sykes and W F Cox to William Lawrence Bragg6 February 1940
RR/68/92Referee's report by William Hume-Rothery, on a paper 'Precipitation in single crystals of silver-rich and copper-rich alloys of the silver-copper system' by Frederic Wood Jones, C M Leech and Charles Sykes21 January 1942
RR/69/261Referee's report by Cecil Henry Desch, on a paper 'The intermetallic compound phases of the system aluminium-manganese-zinc' by G V Raynor, D W Wakeman and Charles Sykes1946
RR/70/146Referee's report by Charles Sykes, on three papers 'Binary and ternary interstitial alloys. Parts I, II and III' by Kenneth Henderson Jack1947
RR/70/145Letter from Charles Sykes, on three papers 'Binary and ternary interstitial alloys. Parts I, II and III' by Kenneth Henderson Jack to David Christie Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society16 April 1948
RR/69/111Referee's report by Charles Sykes, on a paper 'The statistical aspect of fatigue of materials' by A M Freudenthal1946
RR/69/31Referee's report by Charles Sykes, on a paper 'The anisotropy of thermal expansion as a cause of deformation in metals and alloys' by W Boas and Robert William Kerr Honeycombe1946
EC/1943/16Sykes, Sir Charles: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/70/54Referee's report by Charles Sykes, on a paper 'The thermal etching of silver' by B Chalmers, R King and R Shuttleworth1947
RR/67/71Letter from William Lawrence Bragg, on a paper 'Precipitation in the alloys of copper and silver' by Charles Sykes and W F Cox to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society14 March 1940
PB/1/33/3/7Companion of Honour1965
RR/62/39Referee's report by Cecil Henry Desch, on a paper 'The atomic rearrangement process in the copper-gold alloy Cu3Au' by Charles Sykes and Frederic Wood Jones[June 1936]
RR/67/72Referee's report by William Hume-Rothery, on a paper 'Precipitation in the alloys of copper and silver' by Charles Sykes and W F Cox March 1940
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]
RR/54/132Referee's report by Cecil Henry Desch, on a paper 'Methods for investigating thermal changes occuring during transformations in a solid solution' by Charles SykesSeptember 1934
RR/67/64Letter from Charles Sykes, on his paper with W F Cox 'Precipitation in the alloys of copper and silver' to William Lawrence Bragg31 January 1940
RR/67/65Letter from William Lawrence Bragg, on a paper 'Precipitation in the alloys of copper and silver' by Charles Sykes and W F Cox to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton2 February 1940
RR/67/67Memorandum from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'Precipitation in the alloys of copper and silver' by Charles Sykes and W F Cox to Henry Lewis Guy12 February 1940
RR/67/68Letter from William Lawrence Bragg, on a paper 'Precipitation in the alloys of copper and silver' by Charles Sykes and W F Cox to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society17 February 1940
RR/67/69Letter from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'Precipitation in the alloys of copper and silver' by Charles Sykes and W F Cox to William Lawrence Bragg12 March 1940
RR/67/70Letter from Charles Sykes, on his paper with W F Cox 'Precipitation in the alloys of copper and silver' to William Lawrence Bragg13 March 1940
RR/79/176Referee's report by Charles Sykes, on a paper 'Thermodynamic aspects of the behaviour of sulphur in silicate and aluminate melts' by C J B Fincham and Frederick Denys Richardson2 September 1953
RR/73/272Referee's report by Charles Sykes, on a paper 'The iron-nitrogen system: the preparation and the crystal structures of nitrogen-austenite (y) and nitrogen-martensite (a')' by Kenneth Henderson Jack6 December 1950
RR/73/276Referee's report by Charles Sykes, on a paper 'The occurrence and the crystal structure of a"-iron nitride - a new type of interstitial alloy formed during the tempering of nitrogen-martensite' by Kenneth Henderson Jack6 December 1950
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