1. Sir Robert Abbott Hadfield, 1st Baronet FRS was an English metallurgist, noted for his 1882 discovery of manganese steel, one of the first steel alloys.
21 Facts About Robert Hadfield
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Robert Hadfield invented silicon steel, initially for mechanical properties which have made the alloy a material of choice for springs and some fine blades, though it has become important in electrical applications for its magnetic behaviour.
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Hadfield's father, named Robert Hadfield, owned Hadfield's Steel Foundry in Sheffield and in 1872 was the first manufacturer of steel castings in Britain.
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Robert Hadfield declined to use patented technology from France and developed his own, thus laying the foundations for what was to become one of Britain's leading armament firms.
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Robert Hadfield was successful and by the age of 24 had taken over the management due to his father's ill health.
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The younger Robert Hadfield took over the business in 1888 on his father's death.
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In 1889 Robert Hadfield published with the Iron and Steel Institute the results of his investigations into iron alloyed with silicon.
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Robert Hadfield collaborated with James Dewar in the study of very low temperatures on the properties of metals, and with Heike Kamerlingh Onnes at the University of Leyden Cryogenic Laboratory after his appointment there in 1905.
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From 1913 until 1920 Robert Hadfield was president of the Faraday Society, and as a farewell he organized there a seminar on microscopy and the photo-micrograph.
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In 1936 Robert Hadfield presented to the Institution of Civil Engineers a paper in which he detailed the corrosive effect of sea-water on 980 metals.
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Robert Hadfield died 30 September 1940 in Surrey with over 200 papers to his name on metallurgical research.
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Robert Hadfield was knighted on 21 July 1908 and created a baronet, of Sheffield in the West Riding of the County of York on 26 June 1917.
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Robert Hadfield was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1909, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1912 and an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1933.
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Robert Hadfield was a corresponding member of the Academie Francaise.
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Robert Hadfield was an active Freemason and a member of Ivanhoe Lodge meeting at Tapton Hall in Sheffield.
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Robert Hadfield was awarded a Telford Medal by the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1888, the John Scott Medal of The Franklin Institute in 1891 and the Bessemer Gold Medal in 1904.
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Robert Hadfield received the John Fritz Medal in 1921 and the Albert Medal in 1935, both for his contributions to metallurgy.
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Robert Hadfield was awarded honorary degrees from the University of Oxford, the University of Sheffield and the University of Leeds.
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Robert Hadfield is commemorated in the Sir Robert Hadfield Building at the University of Sheffield, which contains the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical and Biological Engineering.
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Robert Hadfield was nominated for the Nobel Prize in physics in 1912.
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Robert Hadfield married in 1894 Miss Frances Belt Wickersham, of Philadelphia, who earned a CBE in 1918 for her services in World War I as the founder of a hospital at Wimereux.