Awards & Winners

Alan Cottrell

Date of Birth 17-July-1919
Place of Birth United Kingdom
(Eurasia, United Kingdom, with Dependencies and Territories, Western Europe, Europe, Littlehampton Lifeboat Station)
Nationality United Kingdom
Also know as Alan Howard Cottrell
Profession Physicist
Sir Alan Howard Cottrell, FRS was an English metallurgist and physicist.

Awards by Alan Cottrell

Check all the awards nominated and won by Alan Cottrell.

1996


Copley Medal
(In recognition of his contribution to the understanding of mechanical properties of materials and related topics through his pioneering studies on crystal plasticity, dislocation impurity interactions, fracture and irradiation effects.)

1974


Rumford Medal
(In recognition of his contributions to physical metallurgy and particularly extending knowledge of the role of dislocation in the fracture of metals.)

1961


Hughes Medal
(For his distinguished work on the physical properties of metals, particularly in relation to mechanical deformation and to the effects of irradiation.)