Understanding Alloys in Terms of Electron Theory

1 Understanding alloys in terms of electron theory. The band theory of solids had no impact on the thinking of metallurgists until the early 1930s, and the link which was eventually made was entirely due to two remarkable men - William Hume-Rothery in Oxford and Harry Jones in Bristol, the first a chemist by education and the second a mathematical physicist. 

Hume-Rothery s position as one of the key creators of modern physical metallurgy remains unchallenged. 

Hume-Rothery s ideas and their theoretical development by Mott and Jones stimulated much consequential research around the world. The most impressive early eonvert was a Freneh physicist, Jacques Friedel, who should have been mentioned in connection with dislocations, in the theory of whieh he played an early part (see the Corrigenda). After a very disturbed war, which ranged from study at the 

Meanwhile, electron theory was revived effectively in Hume-Rothery s own base of Oxford, and is now led by a distinguished mathematical physicist, David Pettifor. 

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