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Peter Hirsch
British metallurgist
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dead
- born
- 1925
- died
- 2025
- age at death
- 100
- known for
- physicist, engineer, metallurgist
1925 β 2025
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who peter hirsch is
Sir Peter Bernhard Hirsch was a British metallurgist who made fundamental contributions to the application of transmission electron microscopy to metals.
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