Introduction to the Special Issue dedicated to the work and memory of Professor Hazel Margaret Prichard (1954-2017)

摘要

On New Year's Day 2017, Professor Hazel Prichard passed away after a long and spirited battle against cancer. As many know, Hazel's overarching research passion was the platinum-group elements. She devoted herself to these fascinating metals for nearly 40 years and made numerous fundamental contributions to our understanding of them over her distinguished career. She collected and studied platinum-group minerals from every continent, except Antarctica, and never tired of interpreting their textures and elucidating the many and varied processes by which they formed. Over the course of her career Hazel was awarded two fellowships and a major award by the UK's most prestigious research organisation, the Royal Society; an individual University Research Fellowship held first at the Open University and then at Cardiff, then later a Royal Society Industrial Fellowship and finally the Brian Mercer Award for Industrial Research to support her work on recycling platinum from road dust.