Richard Dolby
Richard Edwin Dolby, OBE, HonDMet, FREng, FIMMM, HonFWeldI (born 7 July 1938 in Sheffield) is a metallurgist and former Director of Research and Technology at The Welding Institute (TWI) in Cambridge, UK. He is a past President at the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and a current Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. Education Richard Dolby was educated at Northampton Grammar School and, following two years' National Service in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, at the University of Cambridge (Selwyn College), Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy where he also gained his PhD. Career Richard Dolby's early career began at British Alcan and the General Electric Company, and in 1964 he joined The Welding Institute (British Welding Research Association). Here he worked on metallurgical aspects of HAZ toughness of pressure vessel steels and jointly led pioneering studies into lamellar tearing in welded structural steel. He spent 14 years specialising in metallurgy and carrying out fundamental industrial research in the Materials Department at the Institute, becoming Head of Department in 1978. He was appointed Director, Research and Technology in 1985 until his retirement in 2003 when The Welding Institute hosted a