Frederick Brian Pickering
Frederick Brian Pickering, AMet, DMet, FIMMM, CEng, FREng is an English metallurgist. His research and development activities contributed significantly to the creation of stronger and lighter steels.
His notable research and development throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s laid the foundations for much of the physical metallurgy of high strength, low alloy steels. His Physical Metallurgy and the Design of Steels, continues to be recommended reading for the majority of metallurgical engineering and materials science university courses.
Pickering worked at the British Steel Corporation in Rotherham and Sheffield, becoming a key member of the BSC Swinden Laboratories staff and, later, Emeritus Professor at the Sheffield City Polytechnic.
Pickering was awarded the Sidney Gilchrist Thomas Medal in 1968, and the Sir Robert Hadfield Medal 1971, both from the Iron and Steel Institute. Pickering was also awarded the Bessemer Gold Medal in 1994 for outstanding services to the steel industry, by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineeringin 1987. He authored over 160 research publications throughout his career.
He was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, in 1927, and was the cousin of footballer Jack Pickering.
