About Geoffrey Raynor
Lived 1913 – 1983 (aged 70). Geoffrey Raynor was a British engineer, metallurgist, university teacher, dean and chemist.
Geoffrey Vincent Raynor FRS (2 October 1913 – 20 October 1983) was an English metallurgist and university academic.
Life Raynor was educated at Nottingham High School before studying Chemistry at Keble College, Oxford, obtaining a first-class degree in 1936.
The Times said of him that his research gained "international acclaim" and that he had "played a leading part in the development of the chemistry of alloy phases", with his contributions to the subject "likely to be included in the teaching of metallurgy and to be of practical value for many decades."
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Who was Geoffrey Raynor?
British metallurgist
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Geoffrey Raynor was born on 2 October 1913 in Nottingham.
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Geoffrey Raynor died on 20 October 1983 in Birmingham.
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Geoffrey Raynor was an engineer, metallurgist, university teacher, dean and chemist.
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Geoffrey Raynor was British.
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