Peter Hirsch

British metallurgist (born 1925)

Sir Peter Bernhard Hirsch HonFRMS FRS (born 16 January 1925) is a British metallurgist who has made fundamental contributions to the application of transmission electron microscopy to metals. Biography. Born in 1925, Hirsch lived in Germany until 1939; he was one of hundreds of Jewish children that escaped Germany via the various Kindertransport missions that saved many such children from the impending dangers of World War II and the Holocaust. Hirsch attended Sloane Grammar School, Chelsea, and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hirsch

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