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DR. WILLIAM HEBBERT HATFIELD, director of the Brown-Firth Research Laboratories, Sheffield, who died on October 16 after a very short illness, had played a leading part in the development of metallurgical research in Great Britain, besides holding an important position in the steel industry. He was born in Sheffield on April 10, 1882, and worked in the laboratory of Messrs. Henry Bessemer and Co., studying at the same time at University College, Sheffield, under Prof. J. O. Arnold.
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DESCH, C. Dr. W. H. Hatfield, F.R.S. Nature 152, 716 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152716a0
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