Alexandre Pourcel

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Alexandre Pourcel was a French steelmaker who won the Bessemer Gold Medal in 1909. He developed ferro-manganese and showed his work at the 1878 World's Fair, where it interested Robert Hadfield so much that he invented Mangalloy as a result. [1]

Life

Pourcel was born in Marseille in 1841. [2]

Pourcel studied at the Ecole des Mines in St. Etienne, now École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne. [2]

Pourcel worked all his life at the Forges de Terrenoire or Compagnie des Fonderies et Forges de Terrenoire  [ fr ] located in Terrenoire  [ fr ] (now part of Saint-Étienne). [2]

In 1909 Pourcel was awarded an Honorary Membership in the AIME. [2]

Pourcel died in 1934. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Desch, C. H. (1941). "Robert Abbott Hadfield. 1858–1940". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society . 3 (10): 647–664. doi: 10.1098/rsbm.1941.0027 . S2CID   178057481.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Alexandre Pourcel". American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers.
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