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    The Bessemer Gold Medal is awarded annually by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) "for outstanding services to the steel industry...
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    Sir Henry Bessemer FRS (19 January 1813 – 15 March 1898) was an English inventor, whose steel-making process would become the most important technique...
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    Andrew Carnegie (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    cheap and efficient mass production of steel by adopting and adapting the Bessemer process, which allowed the high carbon content of pig iron to be burnt...
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    Frederick Abel (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    and was awarded the Bessemer Gold Medal in 1897 for his work on problems of steel manufacture. He was awarded the Telford Medal by the Institution of...
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    Floris Osmond (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    Floris Osmond (10 March 1849 – 18 June 1912) was a French scientist and engineer. He is known as one of the originators of metallography. He named several...
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    Friedrich Alfred Krupp (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    Friedrich Alfred Krupp (/krʊpp/; 17 February 1854 – 22 November 1902) was a German steel manufacturer and head of the company Krupp. He was the son of...
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    Frederick Brian Pickering (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    Thomas Medal in 1968, and the Sir Robert Hadfield Medal in 1971, both from the Iron and Steel Institute. He was also awarded the Bessemer Gold Medal in 1994...
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    Indira Samarasekera (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    was awarded the Bessemer Gold Medal by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, an annual honour named after Sir Henry Bessemer awarded for outstanding...
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    J. R. D. Tata (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    aviation were given to him – the Tony Jannus Award in March 1979, the Gold Air Medal of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale in 1985, the Edward Warner...
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    Charles Algernon Parsons (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    Merit in 1927. In 1929 the Iron and Steel Institute awarded him the Bessemer Gold Medal. The Parsons turbine company survives in the Heaton area of Newcastle...
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    Étienne Davignon (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    Étienne, Count Davignon (French pronunciation: [etjɛn daviɲɔ̃]; born 4 October 1932) is a Belgian former diplomat, top civil servant, businessman, and...
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    Henry Louis Le Chatelier (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    admitted to the Academie des Sciences in 1907. He was awarded the Bessemer Gold Medal of the British Iron and Steel Institute in 1911, admitted as a Foreign...
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    Daniel Adamson (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    served as its president in 1887. He was awarded the institute's Bessemer Gold Medal in 1888 for his work on the properties of iron and steel and the...
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    Lakshmi Mittal (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    Crore (Rs. 15 million), for getting India its first individual Olympic gold medal in shooting. ArcelorMittal also provided steel for the construction of...
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  • Monty Finniston (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    same year. In 1974 he was awarded the Bessemer Gold Medal, and in 1975 he was awarded the A. A. Griffith Medal and Prize and elected President of the...
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    Joseph Whitworth (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    Institutions Royal Society Institution of Mechanical Engineers Significant advance Whitworth standardised screw threads Awards FRS (1857) Albert Medal (1868)...
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    William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    Cragside in the County of Northumberland. In 1891 he received the Bessemer Gold Medal from the Iron and Steel Institute. Honorary Degrees Armstrong, W...
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    Carl Wilhelm Siemens (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    1850, acknowledged the value of the principle, by awarding Siemens a gold medal for his regenerative condenser. In 1850 he established the London sales...
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    Robert Hadfield (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    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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    Pierre-Émile Martin (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    the dilution of impurities. His work earned him the award of the Bessemer Gold Medal of the Iron and Steel Institute in 1915 and of the French nation...
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  • Edward Pritchard Martin (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    ores. He made commercial trials of the process. He was awarded the Bessemer Gold Medal, by the Iron and Steel Institute in 1884, with Edward Windsor Richards...
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  • Ian MacGregor (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    very grateful when he came back to this country." John Fritz Medal, (1981); Bessemer Gold Medal, (1983) Knighthood, (1986); Chevalier of the Legion of Honour...
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    Harry Brearley (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    1913. He was subsequently awarded the Iron and Steel Institute's Bessemer Gold Medal in 1920. The American Society for Metals gives the date for Brearley's...
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    John Fritz (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    Steel Institute, and recipient of the Bessemer Gold Medal, the Elliott Cresson Gold Medal, and the John Fritz Gold Medal of the United Engineering Societies...
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    Johan August Brinell (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 1919. He was awarded the Bessemer Gold Medal of the Iron and Steel Institute in 1907. He died of pneumonia in...
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    Robert Durrer (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    1966. etc. He 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...
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    Lowthian Bell (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    to 1875. In 1874 he became the first recipient of the gold medal instituted by Sir Henry Bessemer. Bell became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1874 for...
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  • Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    was its president from 1875 to 1877, and in 1881 was awarded the Bessemer Gold Medal. In 1974, the Iron and Steel Institute merged into the Institute...
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  • Richard Dolby (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    Brooker Award and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining's Bessemer Gold Medal for contributions to the steel industry. He was invited to deliver...
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  • Park Tae-joon (category Bessemer Gold Medal)
    Commission placed 6 remade medals except for Gumtap-industry medal at the mortuary during his funeral. He was awarded the Bessemer Gold Medal by the Institute of...
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