Alexandre Pourcel

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. ^ a b c d e "Alexandre Pourcel". American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers.