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DR. HAROLD MOORE, who will retire from the position of director of the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association on October 31, has occupied that position for the last twelve years. Dr. Moore is a native of Middlesbrough, and received his metallurgical training from the late Dr. J. E. Stead, taking a London degree. After two years in a Northamptonshire blast-furnace works he joined Messrs. Beardmore at their Parkhead works, where he was engaged on problems of armour-plate manufacture. In 1904 he became chief metallurgist in the Research Department, Woolwich, being given the title of Director of Metallurgical Research in 1919. Besides controlling a staff engaged in research on armaments, he did valuable work on the development and interpretation of the hardness test, and in collaboration with S. Beckinsale published an important investigation on the season cracking of brass, work which arose out of difficulties with cartridge cases, but was the starting point of a study which has been actively taken up by others.
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British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association: Retirement of Dr. Harold Moore, C.B.E. Nature 154, 482 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154482a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/154482a0