Solid‐state physicists and metallurgy

JAN 01, 1971

If they can tolerate apparent disorder and lack of cut‐and‐dried questions, solid staters should enjoy studying the practical properties of metals.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3022514

Roland W. Schmitt

Are there good problems for solid‐state physicists in metallurgy? I believe so, both from the physicist’s and the metallurgist’s point of view. On the one hand are the important unresolved scientific questions, and on the other are industry’s needs for special materials. A brief survey of the ways physicists can help those who study the uses of metals will show an underlying theme. Metallurgists need theories that can help them generalize from diverse experimental data without depending on detailed quantum‐mechanical models; they need phenomenological theories.

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More about the Authors

Roland W. Schmitt. Physical Science and Engineering, General Electric Research and Development Center.