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Alexandre Pourcel
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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.[1]
Life
Pourcel was born in Marseille in 1841.[2]
Pourcel studied at the Ecole des Mines in St. Etienne, now École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne.[2]
Pourcel worked all his life at the Forges de Terrenoire or Compagnie des Fonderies et Forges de Terrenoire located in Terrenoire (now part of Saint-Étienne).[2]
In 1909 Pourcel was awarded an Honorary Membership in the AIME.[2]
Pourcel died in 1934.[2]
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