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Born April 25, 1897 • Tallahassee • Florida • (Birthday in 5 days)
Died May 14, 1983 (aged 86) • Massachusetts
Subjects Of Study iron • physical chemistry • process metallurgy • steel
Amelia zur Helle Thyssen
German industrialist and philanthropist
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
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
Alexander Lyman Holley
American metallurgist and mechanical engineer
Lomonosov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian author and scientist
Abraham Darby
British ironmaster
William Fairbairn
British engineer
John Wilkinson, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the Science Museum, London
John Wilkinson
English ironmaster
Christian Lundeberg
Swedish politician
John Roebuck
British physician, chemist, and inventor
Hadfield
Sir Robert Abbott Hadfield, Baronet
British metallurgist