Dr. John Jonas
Fellow
Current Employer
McGill University
Election Year
1990
Academy
Académie des sciences
Discipline
Engineering
Department
Department of Metals and Materials Engineering
Keywords
Physical metallurgy, mechanical metallurgy, deformation processing
Prof. Jonas is Canada's foremost researcher on the hot deformation of steels. An internationally acknowledged leader in research in this area, he has published over 500 scientific papers, co-authored three books on the topic, and is currently Birks Professor of Metallurgy at McGill. He is a pioneer in the application of mathematical modelling to hot deformation of metals and one of the first to demonstrate that results obtained in the lab could be used in the design of industrial rolling processes. Consequently, most Canadian steel companies and indeed many others around the world use the results of Prof. Jonas' research in the design of their rolling schedules.