Hatfield memorial lectures The Vol. 1 PDF

INTRODUCTION

The lecturer first reviews Dr Hatfield's early life and training in Sheffield up to the time of his appointment as Director of the Brown-Firth Research Laboratories in 1916. He held this appointment until his death 27 years later, and the main part of the lecture is devoted to a fuller account of his activities during this period. The wide range of subjects covered by his investigations, his attention to the organisation of research and his work for the Joint Research Committees of The Iron and Steel Institute and the British Iron and Steel Federation are dealt with in detail. The large number of papers in which he reported the results of his investigations are quoted as examples of his constant effort to promote the free exchange of metallurgical knowledge. In tracing Dr Hatfield's life, the lecturer shows how his interests were at first restricted to a few plants, how they extended to others and how they eventually spread beyond Great Britain to the other nations of the world

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