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Born April 25, 1897 • Tallahassee • Florida
Died May 14, 1983 (aged 86) • Massachusetts
Subjects Of Study iron • physical chemistry • process metallurgy • steel
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Amelia zur Helle Thyssen
German industrialist and philanthropist
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August Thyssen
German industrialist
A photo of Jamsetji Tata.
Jamsetji Tata
Indian industrialist
Thyssen, Fritz
Fritz Thyssen
German industrialist
Réaumur, detail of an engraving by J. Blanchon
René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
French entomologist
Schwab, Charles M.
Charles M. Schwab
American manufacturer
Kelly, William
William Kelly
American inventor
Daniel Cowan Jackling.
Daniel Cowan Jackling
American engineer
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Henry J. Kaiser
American industrialist
Hewitt, Abram Stevens
Abram Stevens Hewitt
mayor of New York City
Gayley, James
James Gayley
American metallurgist
Frederick Becket
Frederick Mark Becket
American metallurgist
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Alexander Lyman Holley
American metallurgist and mechanical engineer
Lomonosov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian author and scientist
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Abraham Darby
British ironmaster
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William Fairbairn
Scottish civil engineer and inventor
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Christian Lundeberg
Swedish politician
John Wilkinson, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the Science Museum, London
John Wilkinson
English ironmaster
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John Roebuck
British physician, chemist, and inventor
Hadfield
Sir Robert Abbott Hadfield, Baronet
British metallurgist