| Authorised form of name | Christian; John Wyrill (1926 - 2001) |
| Other forms of name | Jack |
| Dates | 1926 - 2001 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Scarborough, Yorkshire, England |
| Date of birth | 09/04/1926 |
| Date of death | 27/02/2001 |
| Research field | Crystallography |
| Activity | Education:
Scarborough Boys' High School (1936-1943); Queen's College, Oxford. MA, DPhil (1949)
Career:
Research student in the laboratory of William Hume-Rothery (1937); Lecturer in metallurgy, (1955); George Keeley Reader in metallurgy (1958); Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford (1963); Professor of Physical Metallurgy (1967); Editor and then Associate Editor, 'Acta Metallurgica' and of other journals; suffered from Parkinson's disease
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/03/1975 |
| Age at election | 48 |
| Relationships | Son of a trawler skipper; married (1949) Maureen Lena Smith; two sons, one daughter, Louise Christian, human rights lawyer |
| Sources | Sources:
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of the Fellows of the Royal Society Vol 54, 2008, pp 71-94
Guardian (02 April 2001) |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/109199777 |
| Royal Society code | NA5997 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1975/09 | Christian, John Wyrill: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| WF/6 | Grant application from the University of Oxford to the Wolfson Foundation for Chair in Metallurgy | 1957-2007 |
| JWC | Papers of John Wyrill Christian FRS, metallurgist | 1946-2001 |
| RR/73/189 | Referee's report by Cecil Henry Desch, on a paper 'A theory of the transformation in pure cobalt' by John Wyrill Christian | 18 August 1950 |