A Celebration of the Life of Professor Tony Kelly ScD FRS FREng PhD CBE DL

The Materials Science community, in particular those who work in the area of composite materials, were saddened to learn of the death, peacefully in his sleep, of Professor Anthony Kelly. Known to friends and colleagues as Tony, Professor Tony Kelly was a founding Fellow of Churchill College, being elected to a Fellowship in October 1959 where he was College Director of Studies in Natural Sciences and lecturer in the Department of Metallurgy at Cambridge University until 1967. He subsequently worked for the government at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington where he was deputy director until 1975. During his tenure at NPL, he spent a brief period at Imperial Chemical Industries before becoming Appl Compos Mater (2014) 21:391–395 DOI 10.1007/s10443-014-9406-3