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THE Bessemer Gold Medals for 1937 of the Iron and Steel Institute have been awarded to Colonel N. T. Belaiew and Aloyse Meyer. Colonel Belaiew of Paris, a former pupil of Prof. Tschernoff of the Military Academy, Petrograd, has, during the last twenty-five years, published a number of papers of outstanding importance on metallurgy. These have dealt mainly with the crystallization of metals, and in particular steel. His studies of the constitution and solid geometry of pearlite, sorbite and troostite demonstrated the true width of the lamellae in these structures and the relation between the angle of section and the apparent width. His suggestion of a definite unit of crystal size of iron has been confirmed from other sources. He also studied the primary and secondary crystallization in steel and the origin of the ‘Widmanstatten’ structure in steel and meteorites. His insight is strikingly shown by his insistence on ‘granulation’ in the austenitic zone, the explanation of which has been provided by the subsequent discovery of the delta-gamma change in iron at very high temperatures. He has studied the manufacture and uses of Damascene steel and related the results to the manufacture of high-class steels at the present time, in particular high-speed steel.
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Iron and Steel Institute: Bessemer Gold Medals. Nature 139, 498 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139498a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139498a0