Aspects of progress in the science of pyrometallurgy
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Aspects of Progress in the Science of Pyrometallurgy
C.B.
ALCOCK
T h e S y m p o s i u m of t h e F a r a d a y S o c i e t y in 1948 e n t i t l e d " P h y s i c a l C h e m i s t r y of P r o c e s s M e t a l l u r g y " o c c u r r e d a t a t i m e w h e n t h e s c i e n c e of p y r o m e t a l l u r g y w a s j u s t b e g i n n i n g a n e r a of r a p i d d e v e l o p m e n t . T h i s l e c t u r e d i s c u s s e s t h e g r o w t h of t h e s u b j e c t i n t h e e n s u i n g 25 y e a r s s h o w i n g t h a t a p r o f o u n d i n c r e a s e i n o u r r a n g e of u n d e r s t a n d i n g a n d of f a c t u a l i n formation has taken place. The knowledge which has been gained now provides a good gene r a l f r a m e w o r k f o r t h e i n d u s t r i a l a p p l i c a t i o n of p r i n c i p l e s a n d f o r t e a c h i n g a t t h e U n i v e r s i t y l e v e l . T h e s o c i a l a n d i n t e l l e c t u a l c l i m a t e of t h e t i m e s , h o w e v e r , a p p e a r s t o b e l e a d i n g t o a s l o w - d o w n i n t h e p u r s u i t of f u n d a m e n t a l k n o w l e d g e , i n t h i s a s i n m a n y o t h e r a p p l i e d s c i e n t i f i c f i e l d s , a n d t h e c a s e i s a r g u e d f o r a r e n e w a l of e f f o r t .
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regard the invitation to deliver the EMD lecture for t h i s y e a r a s a n o p p o r t u n i t y t o r e v i e w t h e p r o g r e s s of t h e s u b j e c t in w h i c h I h a v e w o r k e d m o s t of m y p r o f e s s i o n a l l i f e . T h e f a c t t h a t t h i s o p p o r t u n i t y a r o s e i n 1973 i s p a r t i c u l a r l y t i m e l y f o r m e b e c a u s e 25 y e a r s a g o I was present at an event which has proved to have a The Extractive Metallurgy Lecture was authorized in 1959 to provide an outstanding man in the field o[nonferrous metallurgy as a lecturer at the annual AIME meeting.
C. B. ALCOCKis Chairmanof the Department of Metallurgyand Materials Science at the Universityof Toronto. He is a 1944 graduate of the Chemistry Department of London's Imperial College. He receivedhis doctorate in chemical metallurgy from London Universityin 1955. After a short spell with the British Iron and Steel Research Associationhe was appointed Investigatorin the Nuffield Research Group of the Royal School of Mines in 1950. Joining the academic staff of the MetallurgyDepartment in 1953 as a Lecturer, Dr. Alcock was a Reader in 1961 and a Professor of Metallurgical Chemistry in 1965. Dr. Alcock is a former Science Research Foundation Professor of the Carnegie Institute of Technologyand of North Carolina State University. He was a Ford VisitingProfessor at the Universityof Pennsylvaniain 1965. Dr. Alcock's research interests are in high temperature chemistry of metal and ceramic systems. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Miningand Metallurgy(London). METALLURGICAL TRANSACTIONS B
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