Obituary to Professor Kazuhiro Otsuka (1937-2023)
Patrick Manning Kelly (or Pat to his friends and colleagues) was born in Panama City, Republic of Panama on 25th March, 1935. His father came from Jamaica and his mother from Barbados. When Pat was four the family moved to Colon on the Atlantic side of Panama where Pat attended an American elementary school. His secondary schooling, thanks to his staunchly British parents, was at a boarding school in Barbados. He was awarded a Barbados government scholarship which enabled him to attend Cambridge University, U.K. from where he graduated B.Sc. (Hons) and Ph.D., with a specialisation in electron microscopy.
Following a short period as a Lecturer in the Department of Metallurgy at Leeds University, U.K., he was recruited by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission (now the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO)) to join their Materials Institute for which he eventually became the Institute Head. Pat moved back into academia as an Associate Professor in the Department of Metallurgy at the University of Queensland in the early 1990s. He sadly passed away as the consequence of an aggressive cancer, on 11th August this year.
Pat’s life-long research focussed on crystallography, particularly using electron microscopy and electron diffraction. He carried out research on steels, aluminium and titanium alloys, as well as the ceramic, magnesia partially stabilised zirconia. For a number of years he was a member of the ICOMAT International Committee and was the Chair of the Organising Committee for ICOMAT1989 which had been awarded to Australia and which was held in Sydney from 3rd to 7th July, 1989.
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