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DR. THOMAS SWINDEN, who has been awarded the Bessemer Gold Medal for 1941 of the Iron and Steel Institute, is director of research in the United Steel Companies, and a director of Messrs. Samuel Fox and Co. Ltd. He studied metallurgy at Sheffield under Prof. Arnold, being awarded the Mappin Medal and gaining an 1851 Exhibition scholarship, with which he went to Sweden, working in the University of Uppsala and in Swedish steel works. Returning to England he entered the firm of Samuel Fox and Co. at Stocksbridge, near Sheffield, where he installed a laboratory for physical testing. When, the firm became part of the United Steel Companies, Dr. Swinden took charge of the research work of the combined firms, and in 1934 the exceptionally well-equipped Central Research Department at Stocks-bridge was opened. By the organization and staffing of this laboratory, he has done much to advance the application of science to the iron and steel industry.
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Iron and Steel Institute: Bessemer Gold Medal. Nature 147, 410 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147410b0
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