Internet, authorities.loc.gov, 2010-11-24
Information trouvée : 1937-
Superplasticity : mechanical and structural aspects, environmental effects, fundamentals
and applications / K.A. Padmanabhan, G. J. Davies, 1980
https://www.london.ac.uk/news-opinion/professor-sir-graeme-davies, 2022-09-07
Information trouvée : Originally hailing from New Zealand, Sir Graeme received a BE in Aeronautical Engineering
and a PhD in Materials Science from the University of Auckland. He also taught at
the University of Auckland from 1964 to 1966. He held honorary doctorates from thirteen
universities. Before joining the University of Liverpool, he was Professor of Metallurgy
at the University of Sheffield from 1977 to 1986. He had previously worked for 16
years in the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science at Cambridge University
and was a Fellow of St. Catharine’s College there. Sir Graeme served as Vice-Chancellor
of the University of Glasgow from 1995 to 2003 and the University of Liverpool from
1986 to 1991. In between these periods, he was the Chief Executive of the Higher Education
Funding Council for England, from 1991 to 1995. Sir Graeme was Chairman of the British
University Vietnam and the Foundation for Liver Research. He was also a Trustee of
Regent's University London as well as Governor of the University of Lincoln, Taylor's
University (Malaysia), and the British Institute of Technology. We're saddened to
learn of the passing of Professor Sir Graeme Davies, who served as the University’s
Vice-Chancellor between 2003 and 2010 - the longest term of our modern-day VCs. He
passed away in the early hours of 30 August 2022 at the age of 85.