Metallurgists and Materials Inventors

Corning Glass researchers Robert D. Maurer, Donald Keck, and Peter Schultz developed fiber-optic wire

Keck, Maurer, and Schultz discovered that they could transmit sound in the form of light along a fiber of silica glass

The optical fiber produced by this team was based on pure silica glass and a unique method of vaporization.

Cort began refining iron from pig iron to wrought iron (or bar iron) using innovative production systems.

Pfann is known for his development of zone melting which is essential to the semiconductor industry.

best known for his invention of Starlite, a thermal shielding material

He is a professor of chemistry and past founding director of both the Institute for Materials Research and the Materials Science and Engineering program at Binghamton University, State University of New York.

John Bannister Goodenough ( GUUD-in-uf; July 25, 1922, June 25, 2023) was an American materials scientist, a solid-state physicist, and a Nobel laureate in chemistry.

Sir Henry Bessemer (19 January 1813-15 March 1898) was an English inventor, whose steel-making process was the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years.

His major contribution was the development of techniques for thin sectioning of rocks and minerals with polarized light under a microscope which was also extended to study iron and steel, his family having been involved in the Sheffield iron and steel industry for generations.

Adolf Martens (Adolf Karl Gottfried Martens; 6 March 1850 in Gammelin, 24 July 1914 in Groß-Lichterfelde) was a German metallurgist and the namesake of the steel structure martensite and the martensitic transformation, a type of diffusionless phase transition in the solid state.

Dan Shechtman (Hebrew: דן שכטמן; born January 24, 1941) is an Israeli chemist, the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, an Associate of the US Department of Energy's Ames National Laboratory, and Professor of Materials Science at Iowa State University.

Alfred Krupp (born Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp; 26 April 1812-14 July 1887) was a German steel manufacturer and inventor, and also the largest arms supplier of his era, which earned him the nickname "The Cannon King".

He was one of the inventors of the Hall-Héroult process for smelting aluminium, and developed the first successful commercial electric arc furnace.

Robert Durrer (1890-1978) was a Swiss engineer who invented the basic oxygen steelmaking process (the Linz-Donawitz process, named after the towns where the technology was commercialized).

Carl Josef Bayer (also Karl Bayer, 4 March 1847-4 October 1904) was a chemist from Austria-Hungary who invented and named the Bayer process of extracting alumina from bauxite, essential to this day to the economical production of aluminium.

Alexander Parkes (29 December 1813-29 June 1890) was a metallurgist and inventor from Birmingham, England.

Sherard Osborn Cowper-Coles (8 October 1866-9 September 1936) was a British metallurgist, and inventor of the sherardising process of galvanization.

known for inventing Kevlar

He created the first safe, production-viable lithium-ion battery

who is credited with inventing the neoprene wetsuit

After 6 years of work, he succeeded in developing a process for the large-scale commercial production of zinc from calamine.

On the instigation of his chief, G. Benedicks, he investigated electric steel-smelting, and in 1899 he constructed the first induction furnace, which at once made his name known everywhere.

Benjamin Huntsman (1704-1776) was an English inventor and manufacturer of crucible steel.