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THE Institute of Metals (Platinum) Medal for 1948 has been awarded to Dr. Robert Crooks Stanley, chairman and president of the International Nickel Company of Canada, Ltd., in recognition of his outstanding services to the non-ferrous metal industries. Dr. Stanley, who was born at Little Falls, Now Jersey, in 1876, was educated at the Stevens Institute of Technology and Columbia University. On the organisation of the original International Nickel Company in 1902, Dr. Stanley became assistant superintendent of the Camden (N.J.) Works, and eventually superintendent ; in 1904 he was transferred to Bayonne as assistant general superintendent of the Orford Copper Co. At both plants he was responsible for a complete modernization programme. ‘Monel', the white alloy of nickel and copper, owes its discovery in 1905 to Dr. Stanley, who conceived and developed the process for producing the alloy direct from ore without separating the nickel and copper.
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Institute of Metals (Platinum) Medal : Dr. R. C. Stanley. Nature 161, 344 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161344b0
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