Frederick Brian Pickering
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Frederick Brian Pickering is a leading British metallurgist. His research and development activities contributed significantly to the creation of the stronger and lighter steels.
Prof. Pickering's publications, especially those with Terry Gladman and K.J.Irvine, laid the foundations for much of the physical metallurgy of high strength, low alloy steels. His classic Physical Metallurgy and the Design of Steels (ISBN 0853347522), originally published in 1978 by Applied Science Publishers, London, continues to be recommended reading for the majority of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science university courses around the world.
His research was done in the industrial sector, at the British Steel Corporation, and in the academic world, at the Sheffield City Polytechnic (later to become Sheffield Hallam University (http://www.shu.ac.uk)).
He was born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.