Bibliographic record
Abstract
Mike Stowell was a Bristol physicist turned metallurgist who led the development of practical aluminium-based superplastic alloys by showing how to retain grains small enough, at temperatures high enough, to allow almost unlimited shape changes in forming operations. He can be regarded as the father of SUPRAL alloys, as these are now called. At the Tube Investment laboratory in Hinxton Hall, Essex, he led teams that made effective use of the novel electron-optical equipment invented there to solve numerous fascinating problems of technical importance, among them the sequence of growth by evaporation of thin metallic films and the mechanisms controlling the precipitation of graphite in cast iron. He was dedicated to science at the heart of industrial metallurgy, so that when the laboratory closed, rather than retire, he became research director at Alcan, interacting with a laboratory in Italy as well as managing disparate laboratories in England and Canada to develop coatings for the electrodes used in aluminium production. He was a founder member of what we now know as the ‘Cambridge Phenomenon’, the close interaction between innovative, high-tech industry and the university. In connection with these activities, he made long-lasting fundamental contributions to the understanding of precipitation both of two-dimensional islands in the growth of thin films and in three dimensions in the bulk solid state.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.474 | 0.348 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".