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.
Life
Pourcel was born in Marseille in 1841.
Pourcel studied at the Ecole des Mines in St. Etienne, now École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne.
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).
In 1909 Pourcel was awarded an Honorary Membership in the AIME.
Pourcel died in 1934.
References
- 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.
- ^ "Alexandre Pourcel". American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers.