Duwez, Pol Edgard (Applied Physicist)

Person

Staff Only

Dates

Existence: 1907 - 1984

Biographical/Historical

Background: Caltech Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science, 1947-1978; Research Engineer, Caltech, 1942-1947.

Biographical/Historical

Description: Duwez was an expert in the field of metals and materials. His research concerned a wide range of solid-state phenomena including plastic deformation and wave propagation, heat transfer and transpiration cooling, powder metallurgy, stable and metastable alloy systems, high-temperature alloys and ceramic materials, magnetic and superconducting phases, and the discovery of metallic glasses by novel quenching from the liquid state.

Biographical/Historical

Collection Notes: Oral History, 1982. This 72 page oral history covers Duwez's family background and childhood in Belgium, postdoctoral study at Caltech, wartime research and service, and his teaching and research at Caltech.

Photo of Pol Duwez (PhotoNet).

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Duwez Photographs

Unprocessed Material

Identifier: 1988-00295

Found in: California Institute of Technology Archives and Special Collections

Memorial Service

Unprocessed Material

Identifier: 1986-00183

Dates: 1985-02-01

Found in: California Institute of Technology Archives and Special Collections

Metallic Glasses: Research & Recollections

Unprocessed Material

Identifier: 1986-00182

Dates: 1980-01-16

Found in: California Institute of Technology Archives and Special Collections

Pol Duwez

File — Box Z14: Series II

Identifier: Z14

Dates: 19th century to present

Found in: California Institute of Technology Archives and Special Collections / California Institute of Technology Historical Files / Series II: California Institute of Technology / Individuals

Pol Duwez Oral History Interview with Harriett Lyle, 1979-04-20 - 1979-04-30

Item

Scope and Contents Abstract: An interview in seven sessions, April 1979, with Pol Duwez, professor emeritus of applied physics in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science. Recollections of his childhood in Mons, Belgium, during the German occupation in World War I. Educated at the School of Mines in Mons and the University of Brussels, where Auguste Piccard was one of his professors. Comes to Caltech in 1933 as a research fellow, working with Theodore von Kármán and Fritz Zwicky on the plasticity of...

Dates: 1979-04-20 - 1979-04-30