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MR. G. D. BAGLEY, leader of the experimental engineering group of the Union Carbide and Carbon Research Division, has been awarded the Jacob F. Schoellkopf Medal for 1944 by the Western New York Section of the American Chemical Society, for "outstanding and highly significant work, particularly in the fields of the commercialization of very active metals". Largely through his chemical and engineering skill, a process has been developed which produces magnesium in high-temperature vacuum furnaces with capacities which were formerly thought to be impossible. Previously, the dolomite-ferro-silicon reaction for making metallic magnesium had always been considered a laboratory curiosity. Mr. Bagley's production methods are being carried out at the Electro Metallurgical Company's plant at Spokane, Washington, with a rated capacity of 24,000 tons a year. Mr. Bagley has also developed a method for the production of metallic calcium. Before the War, calcium came almost exclusively from France and was made in small cells at a high production cost. When this source was cut off, Mr. Bagley designed large automatic cells, which are now producing a purer product at a considerably reduced cost. Mr. Bagley, who has been with the Union Carbide and Carbon Research Laboratories since 1918, has also been wholly or partially responsible for many other highly important chemical and chemical engineering developments.
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Award for Production of Magnesium and Calcium. Nature 153, 614 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153614c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/153614c0