William Chandler Roberts-Austen

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William Chandler Roberts-Austen, (March 3, 1843 in Kennington - November 22, 1902, London), was a metallurgist noted for his research on the physical properties of metals and their alloys. He developed procedures for the analysis of alloy constituents and an automatic recording pyrometer used to record temperature changes in furnaces and molten materials. He became a world authority on the technical aspects of minting coins. His work had many practical and industrial applications. He became professor of metallurgy at the Royal School of Mines in London from 1882 to 1902 and was knighted in 1899.

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