Alan Cottrell
Metallurgist and physicist
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Sir Alan Howard Cottrell, FRS was an English metallurgist and physicist. He was also former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government and vice-chancellor of Cambridge University 1977–1979. Wikipedia
Born: July 17, 1919, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Died: February 15, 2012 (age 92 years), Cambridge, United Kingdom
Awards: Fellow of the Royal Society, Hughes Medal (1961), Harvey Prize (1974), and more