Peter Hirsch
Peter Hirsch · Science & Medicine
Metallurgist, pioneer of electron microscopy of dislocations in metals
1925, Berlin, Germany — 2025
United Kingdom (Cambridge · Oxford)
Peter Hirsch is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Metallurgist, pioneer of electron microscopy of dislocations in metals
Hirsch escaped Nazi Germany as a Jewish child on the Kindertransport and settled in Britain. In the mid-1950s at Cambridge he pioneered transmission electron microscopy of metals and developed the theory needed to image dislocations directly, transforming the understanding of how metals deform and strengthen. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1963 and knighted in 1975.
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Metallurgist, pioneer of electron microscopy of dislocations in metals
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