Brian Eyre
{{Short description|British material scientist}}
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{{Use British English|date=April 2018}}
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| honorific_prefix = Professor
| name = Brian Eyre
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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1933|11|29}}
| death_date = {{death date and age |df=yes|2014|07|28|1933|11|29}}
| website = {{URL|http://www.materials.ox.ac.uk/2014/07/Professor-Brian-Eyre-CBE-FRS-FREng/}}
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Brian Leonard Eyre (29 November 1933 – 28 July 2014) was a British material scientist, Chief Executive of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA){{cite journal|last1=Pooley|first1=Derek|last2=Smith|first2=George|authorlink2=George D. W. Smith|last3=Windsor|first3=Colin|authorlink3=Colin Windsor|title=Brian Eyre CBE FREng. 29 November 1933 — 28 July 2014|journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society|year=2016|volume=62|pages=147–166|doi=10.1098/rsbm.2016.0016|publisher=Royal Society|location=London|s2cid=79308446}} and Professor at the University of Liverpool. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford and University College London.{{cite web|url=http://www.materials.ox.ac.uk/2014/07/Professor-Brian-Eyre-CBE-FRS-FREng/|title=Professor Brian Eyre CBE, FRS, FREng|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222035428/http://www.materials.ox.ac.uk/2014/07/Professor-Brian-Eyre-CBE-FRS-FREng/|archivedate=2014-12-22|author=Anon|year=2014|website=ox.ac.uk|publisher=University of Oxford|location=Oxford}}
Career and research
Eyre was appointed Professor of Materials Science at the University of Liverpool from 1979 to 1984. His research investigated nuclear technology, including electron microscopy studies of radiation damage in metals and alloys.{{cite journal|last1=Eyre|first1=B L|title=Transmission electron microscope studies of point defect clusters in fcc and bcc metals|journal=Journal of Physics F: Metal Physics|volume=3|issue=2|year=1973|pages=422–470|doi=10.1088/0305-4608/3/2/009|bibcode=1973JPhF....3..422E}}{{cite journal|last1=Mazey|first1=D.J.|last2=Eyre|first2=B.L.|last3=Evans|first3=J.H.|last4=Erents|first4=S.K.|last5=McCracken|first5=G.M.|title=A transmission electron microscopy study of molybdenum irradiated with helium ions|journal=Journal of Nuclear Materials|volume=64|issue=1–2|year=1977|pages=145–156|doi=10.1016/0022-3115(77)90018-6|bibcode=1977JNuM...64..145M}}{{cite journal|last1=Jenkins|first1=M. L.|last2=English|first2=C. A.|last3=Eyre|first3=B. L.|title=Heavy-ion irradiation of α-iron|journal=Philosophical Magazine A|volume=38|issue=1|year=1978|pages=97–114|doi=10.1080/01418617808239220|bibcode=1978PMagA..38...97J}} He played an important role in the privatisation of UKAEA to create AEA Technology.
Awards and honours
Eyre was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2001 and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1992. He was elected foreign associate member of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States in 2009 for his understanding of neutron irradiation-induced damage in materials and for developing technologies and policies for nuclear power in the United Kingdom.{{cite web|url=http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-02/naos-nao020609.php|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220134745/http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-02/naos-nao020609.php|archivedate=2014-12-20|website=eurekalert.org|title=National Academy of Engineering elects 65 members and 9 foreign associates|author=Anon|year=2009}}
He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1993 New Year Honours.{{London Gazette |issue=53153 |date=1992-12-20 |page=8 |supp=y}}
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Category:Academics of the University of Oxford
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society
Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Category:British materials scientists
Category:Foreign associates of the National Academy of Engineering