| RefNo | EC/1991/06 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Cahn, Robert Wolfgang: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 1989 |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Distinguished for his contributions to Physical Metallurgy. He performed early researches on and elucidated an important recovery mechanism of deformed metals, known as "polygonization", and recognized its importance in recrystallization, a field in which he is an eminent authority. His studies of the plastic deformation of uranium are definitive, and he has contributed substantially to our knowledge of the mechanisms of twinning in this and other metals. He published an outstanding paper on the martensitic transformation of titanium. He has carried out important studies on ordering mechanisms and kinetics in alloys and on the effect of atomic order on physical and mechanical properties, as well as several researches on the formation of metastable alloys, both crystalline and glassy, by ultarapid solidification. In particular, he has made extensive experimental studies of ordered alloys and intermetallic compounds which are at present of special interest as possible high-temperature structural materials. Thus he has elucidated the complex ordering transition in the crucial phase in superalloys, has achieved new insights into the role of antiphase domains in ordering and disordering and in modifying ductility, and has most recently established the inhibiting effect of order on the recrystallization of deformed alloys. |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA3986 | Cahn; Robert Wolfgang (1924 - 2007) | 1924 - 2007 |