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DR. WALTER ROSENHAIN, whose death at the early age of fifty-eight years occurred on March 17 last, had a world-wide reputation as a metallurgist; and for more than thirty years had taken a leading part in the development of the new science of metallography. Born in Melbourne, Australia, on August 24, 1875, he graduated in engineering at the University of Melbourne, in 1897, and proceeded to Cambridge as the holder of an 1851 Exhibition Scholarship. Here he worked with Prof, (now Sir Alfred) Ewing, and began to use the microscope in the study of metals. In 1899 appeared a memorable joint paper, describing in detail the mechanism of deformation of metals by slip, which has formed the basis of all later work on the subject.
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Dr. Walter Rosenhain, F.R.S. Nature 133, 675 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133675a0
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