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THE Council of the Iron and Steel Institute has made the following awards : Bessemer Gold Medal for 1948, to Mr. W. J. Dawson, formerly of Hadfield's, Ltd., in recognition of his contributions to the development of steel castings and to the production of alloy and heat-resisting steels ; Sir Robert Hadfield Medal for 1948, to Mr. A. Preece, reader in metallurgy in the University of Leeds, in recognition of his researches on the scaling and on the overheating and burning of steel ; Williams Prize for 1947, to Mr. R. Fowler, of Richard Thomas and Baldwins, Ltd., for his paper on "Blowing out a Blast-Furnace", printed in the Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, 155, 513 (1947). The presentations will be made on May 5 during the annual general meeting of the Institute.
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Iron and Steel Institute Awards. Nature 161, 512 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161512a0
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