Pravat Sukhum died on 8th April, 1960, at the age of 54.
Of Siamese nationality and educated in Europe, Mr. Sukhum studied at Cambridge University from 1924 to 1927 and obtained the B.A. degree. He worked for a few months in a Staffordshire coal mine and during 1927 and 1928 took special courses of study at Birmingham University and the Royal School of Mines, London. He visited mines and metallurgical works in France, Germany and Britain, and then went to North America to Sudbury mine, Ontario, and Leadville mine, Colorado, and also visited Californian oilfields.
He returned to Siam in 1930 and worked as an Assistant Inspector in the Department of Mines and Geology, also teaching geology and mineralogy at Chulalongkarana University. He was appointed Inspector and in 1945 became Chief Engineer, Department of Mines, Bangkok. In the following year he was appointed Director-General of the Metallurgical Department, Ministry of the Interior.
Mr. Sukhum was elected an Associate Member of the Institution in 1936.
Vol. 71, Trans I.M.M., 1961-62, p.200
