"John Frederick Knott" OBE Royal Society/FRS Royal Academy of Engineering/FREng is an English people/English Metallurgy/metallurgist and Materials science/materials scientist.

From 1962 to 1966, Knott was a Research Officer at the Central Electricity Research Laboratories in Leatherhead in Surrey, after which he became a lecturer in the Department of Materials, Science and Metallurgy at Cambridge University between 1967 and 1981. In 1990, he moved to the University of Birmingham, where he was Professor and Head of the School of Metallurgy and Materials until 1996, Dean of Engineering from 1995 to 1998 and the fifth Feeney Professor of Physical Metallurgy between 1994 and 2007.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1990 and was awarded their Leverhulme Medal (Royal Society)/Leverhulme Medal in 2005 "for his distinguished contributions to the quantitative scientific understanding of Fracture mechanics/fracture processes in metals and alloys and its engineering applications". He was elected in 1988 as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

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How can we be held liable for the actions of wild animals?

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This precinct, being a large precinct, is below average but that's more than I expected, ... My guess is we might get 200-250 votes based on the rate we are going now. I hope we beat that.

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What is most important is growing sustainable cultures, not building sustainable developments or green buildings. We should be thinking in terms of serving our human community first, ... a philosopher and builder.

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Companies that have a presence in multiple markets are very likely to rebuild.

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Then it becomes a political hot potato.

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