Norman Percy Allen

Norman Percy Allen CB FRS (5 June 1903 – 23 February 1972) was a British metallurgist.

[1] He was born in Wrexham, North Wales, the son of accountant Sidney Edward Allen and educated at Burton-on-Trent Boys' Grammar School and Sheffield University, where he obtained an honours degree in metallurgy.

In 1933 he left the university to join Mond Nickel Company at their Birmingham research laboratory under Dr Leonard Bessemer Pfeil, where he stayed until 1945.

In 1945, he joined the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) as Superintendent of the Metallurgy Division, where he stayed until his retirement in 1969.

[3] He was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1966 Birthday Honours.

Solvay Conference on Physics in Brussels 1951. Left to right, sitting: Crussaro, Allen, Cauchois , Borelius, Bragg , Møller , Sietz, Hollomon , Frank; middle row: Gerhart Rathenau [ nl ] , Koster, Erik Rudberg [ sv ] , Flamache, Goche, Groven, Orowan , Burgers , Shockley , Guinier , C.S. Smith, Dehlinger [ de ] , Laval, Henriot ; top row: Gaspart, Lomer, Cottrell , Homes, Curien