1. Robert Durrer was a Swiss engineer who invented the basic oxygen steelmaking process during his career in Nazi Germany.
10 Facts About Robert Durrer
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Robert Durrer stayed in Germany and in 1928 accepted the chair of the Professor of Metallurgy at the Technische Universitat Berlin.
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From 1933 to 1939, during his time in Nazi Germany, Robert Durrer supervised experiments on the new steel making technique.
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In 1943 Robert Durrer returned from Nazi Germany to Switzerland and was appointed to the board of von Roll AG, the country's largest steelmaker.
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Robert Durrer teamed up with Heinrich Heilbrugge and ran a series of experiments which established the commercial viability of basic oxygen metallurgy.
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In 1947 Robert Durrer ordered a small experimental converter from the United States, and on 1 April 1948 Robert Durrer and Heilbrugge produced their first oxygen-blown steel.
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Robert Durrer was a professor at ETH Zurich from 1943 to 1961.
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Robert Durrer edited and co-authored the multi-volume.
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Robert Durrer was awarded the Bessemer Gold Medal by the British Iron and Steel Institute in 1957 and the Rinman Medal by the Swedish iron and steel industry in 1959.
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The annual Staudinger-Robert Durrer Prize awarded by ETH Zurich commemorates Robert Durrer along with Nobel Prize winner Hermann Staudinger.