Millennium's first honorary doctorate for ITC president Dr Jost

Citation

(2000), "Millennium's first honorary doctorate for ITC president Dr Jost", Industrial Lubrication and Tribology, Vol. 52 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/ilt.2000.01852cab.003

Millennium's first honorary doctorate for ITC president Dr Jost

Millennium's first honorary doctorate for ITC president Dr Jost

"For his outstanding achievements and contribution to the development of tribology", the A. Belyi Metal-Polymer Research Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, renowned as being a world's leading research institute in its field, presented the new millennium's first Doctorate of Science, honoris causa, to Dr H. Peter Jost CBE.

Dr Jost (see Plate 1) is Chairman of several industrial technology companies in the lubrication field, President of the International Tribology Council, Past Lubrication Consultant at the building of Llanwern and August Thyssen Beekerwerth Steel Works. He is a vice president of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee at Wesminster and a member of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Consultative Committee on Science and Technology.

Plate 1Dr H. Peter Jost CBE

In addition to his CBE, he has received State honours from France, Germany and Poland and holds two honorary professorships, now seven honorary doctorates as well as awards and honorary fellow and memberships from 14 countries.