Anne Neville. 21 March 1970—2 July 2022

Anne Neville spent much of her working life researching in tribology, surface engineering, and corrosion. These three areas are linked by the fundamental physics of surfaces. Anne was an engineer, and engineers build and design machines and devices with solid components. Yet, all these components have a surface—and that surface is often where the challenges arise. Anne had a passion for the physical understanding of what happens at a surface, whether it be corrosion, surface transformation either unintendedly, with corrosion, or with the deliberate engineering of the surface, or the study of surfaces in relative motion—tribology. Anne combined this passion for science with an ability to build teams and inspire co-workers, and a capacity for hard work to make tremendous achievements in these seemingly disparate fields.