Bruce Hyde

Distinguished for his contributions to solid state chemistry. During the past 10 - 12 years, Hyde's researches have provided some of the main factors in the profound changes undergone by our ideas about apparently highly defective structures - nonstoichiometric compounds and ternary solid solutions. His work has covered both structural and thermodynamic aspects. He was -independently - one of the pioneers in applying high resolution electron microscopy to these problems and has particularly illuminated the nature and role of crystallographic shear. He showed how extended defects could virtually eliminate point defects from these materials and discovered the remarkable continuous reorientation of shear planes. His thermodynamic studies of the 'nonstoichiometric' praseodymium oxide and rutile systems are classics of careful, critical experimentation. In addition, he has been prolific and original in ideas about both the implications of the new findings and the structural and topological aspects of solid state transformations. He has built up an excellent and productive research school in Western Australia and is internationally recognised not only as a leading figure, but as a world authority in the solid state field.

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