Abdul Qadeer Khan

Abdul Qadeer Khan

male, 74 years old
Pakistan and weapons of mass destruction, Pakistan's nuclear program, Metallurgical Engineer, metallurgy, nuclear weapons technology proliferation, Pakistan's nuclear programme…Metallurgist
Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan (b. 1935) is a Pakistani Scientist and Metallurgical Engineer widely regarded as the founder of Pakistan's nuclear program....
Henry Bessemer

Henry Bessemer

male, deceased (1898)
buried at West Norwood Cemetery, English, Fellow of the Royal Society, inventor, National Inventors Hall of Fame, bessemer process…Metallurgist
Sir Henry Bessemer (January 19, 1813 - March 15, 1898), English engineer and inventor, was born at Charlton near Hitchin in Hertfordshire....
Cyril Stanley Smith

Cyril Stanley Smith

male, deceased (1992)
University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Metallurgist, historian, Manhattan Project, Historian of science
Cyril Stanley Smith (October 4, 1903-August 25, 1992) was a renowned metallurgist and historian of science. Smith is perhaps most famous for his...
Harry Brearley

Harry Brearley

male, deceased (1948)
Metallurgist, stainless steel, From sheffield, employed at Firth's crucible steel furnaces, iron, Steel Institute
Harry Brearley (February 18, 1871 - August 12,1948) was the inventor of "rustless steel" (later to be called "stainless steel"). He was born in...
Vannoccio Biringuccio

Vannoccio Biringuccio

male, deceased (1539)
potassium nitrate, foundry, iron, Italian, mining, scientist…Metallurgist
Vannoccio Biringuccio, sometimes spelt Vannocio Biringuccio, (1480-1539) was an Italian metallurgist. He is best known for his manual on...

Albert Sauveur

male, deceased (1939)
Belgian American, Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni, liege, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Metallurgist
Albert Sauveur was an American Metallurgist, originally Belgian. He studied at Athénée Royal in Brussels, then the School of Mines, Liege and gr...

William Champion

male
Metallurgist, charcoal, swansea, zinc, smelter, calamine
William Champion (born 1709 died 1789) is credited with patenting a process in Britain to distill zinc from calamine using charcoal in a smelter....
Ursula Franklin

Ursula Franklin

female, 88 years old
ph.d, University Professor, Doctor of Philosophy, From Bavaria, Technical University of Berlin, Radioactive…Metallurgist
Ursula Martius Franklin, CC, O.Ont, Ph.D, FRSC (born September 16, 1921 in Munich, Germany) is a German-Canadian metallurgist and research...
Robert Hadfield

Robert Hadfield

male, deceased (1940)
Metallurgist, Fellow of the Royal Society, metallurgy, baronet, steel, casting
Sir Robert Abbott Hadfield (born November 28, 1858, Sheffield; died September 30, 1940, Surrey) was an English metallurgist, noted for his 1882...

Alfred E. Hunt

male, deceased (1899)
Alfred Ephraim Hunt, From Pittsburgh, Industrialist, aluminum, aluminium, American…Metallurgist
Alfred Ephraim Hunt was a 19th Century American metallurgist and industrialist best known for founding the company that would eventually become...