Brian Charles Hilton Steele 1929-2003

摘要

BRIAN CHARLES HILTON STEELE was born in Lancashire, U.K. on May 10, 1929, passed away on August 11, 2003 at the age of 74. He was educated at the King George the V Grammar School in Southport, U.K. Following his national service in the Royal Air Force from 1947 to 1949, he studied chemistry at the University of Birmingham, and graduated from there in 1952. He started his career in ceramics when he joined the British Ceramics Research Association in Stoke upon Trent, where he worked as a scientific officer until 1955. His interest in solid-state ionics began in 1957 while he was working in London with the Morgan Crucible Company as a project leader. In that same year, he left Morgan Crucible and joined the Department of Metallurgy at Imperial College to become a Nuffield investigator where he undertook postgraduate study in solid electrolytes, under the supervision of the late Professor Ben Alcock. In 1965, he was awarded a PhD for his work on galvanic cells for thermodynamic studies and joined the academic staff at Imperial College and he stayed at Imperial until he retired as Professor of Materials Science in 1994.