Word: metallurgist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their candle blew out while an English metallurgist named Hodgson and his son, according to last week's despatches, were poking about the Golconda lead mine at Hopton, Derbyshire. In the blackness they saw a dull greenish glow. It came from a chunk of radioactive rock, no surprise in a lead mine.* The rock assayed $300 worth of radium to the ton, a new "natural resource" for Britain and science...
...competitive groups of metallurgist-salesmen chafed last week at industry's slow take-up of a scientific development-tungsten, carbon and cobalt so combined that they made a new material for cutting-tools. The men on one side were employed by the Carboloy Co., General Electric subsidiary; on the other by Thomas Prosser & Son, for 75 years U. S. selling agents for Krupp. Both Krupp and General Electric have independently developed similar metals. Krupp calls its widia (from wie diamant, "like diamond"); General Electric calls its carboloy...
...Science of the Metallurgy of Iron and Steel," has been awarded to Professor Albert Sauveur, professor of metallurgy and metallography in the University, it was announced yesterday. The medal, which is the highest award available in the field of steel metallurgy, has not been awarded to an American metallurgist for 29 years...