Background
The son of doctor Frank Edward Tylecote, he was born in Manchester and educated at Oundle School.
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Ronald Frank Tylecote
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He obtained an Master of Arts from Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1938, and an Master of Science from the University of Manchester in 1942, and a Doctor of Philosophy on the oxidation of copper from the University of London in 1952.
Career
After a period in industry working as a welding research engineer, he became an Imperial Chemical Industries Research Fellow at University of London. In 1953 he was appointed as a lecturer at Newcastle University, where he became a Reader in Archaeometallurgy, a post from which he retired in September 1978. In 1976 he began teaching Archaeometallurgy at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, which led to him becoming an honorary Professor there in 1979.
Tylecote"s academic papers are held by the Historical Metallurgy Society: calendar.
His slag samples are also held by the Historical Metallurgy Society.
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British