Bruce Godfrey Hyde 1925–2014

Professor Bruce Hyde FAA was a leading figure in solid state chemistry who made contributions to our understanding of crystalline structures – insights that made the design and analysis of real-world solid materials far more practical.

Bruce Hyde made seminal contributions to modern solid state chemistry, in particular to the understanding and characterisation of non-stoichiometry and structural complexity in the solid state. His work showed unequivocally that non-stoichiometric crystalline materials were often much more highly ordered than previously believed, that the ‘point defects' of conventional wisdom were in fact ordered into extended defects and that these defects were themselves ordered into structures of complexities hitherto unimagined. His deep understanding of crystal chemistry and structural relationships is apparent in his two co-authored books with his closest colleagues, Sten Andersson and Michael O'Keeffe. It also led to his mentoring an entire generation of younger Australian (and international) solid state chemists.

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About this memoir

This memoir was originally published in Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 26(2), 2015. It was written by Ray Withers, Jeffrey Sellar, Michael O’Keeffe and Stephen Hyde.