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Honeycombe, Robert William Kerr (1921 - )

FRS

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Metallurgist

Born: 2 May 1921 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Robert William K. Honeycombe studied science at the Universities of Melbourne and Cambridge. After a five year stint as a research officer with Australia's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), he moved to London to further his career (1948). Honeycombe spent the next thirty plus years in England, working and lecturing in metallurgy.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1941 Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
1942 Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
1942 - 1947 Research Officer in the Lubricants and Bearings Section at CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research)
1948 - 1951 Research Fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge,UK
1950 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Cambridge
1951 - 1955 Senior Lecturer in Physical Metallurgy at the University of Sheffield
1955 - 1966 Professor of Physical Metallurgy at the University of Sheffield
1961 Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Melbourne
1966 - 1984 Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge
1981 - Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)

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'Honeycombe, Robert William Kerr', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P001695p.htm. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 22 June 2005

Published by The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on ASAPWeb, 1994 - 2007
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