Albert Sauveur

Professor Albert Sauveur (1863-1939)

Born in Belgium

of Harvard University

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1939 Obituary.

Professor ALBERT SAUVEUR, Emeritus Professor of Metallurgy and Metallography at Harvard University, died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., on January 26, 1939, at the age of seventy-four.

Born at Louvain, Belgium, in 1865, he received his education at schools in Brussels and Liege and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He specialised in mining and metallurgy. In 1889 he was appointed to the Pennsylvania Steel Co., and in 1890 he joined the research laboratory of the Illinois Steel Co. In 1895 he started teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Metallurgical Department of Harvard University, where he served as instructor and assistant professor from 1899 to 1905; in that year he was elected to the Gordon McKay Chair of Metallurgy and Metallography at Harvard University, which position he held until 1935, when he retired as Emeritus Professor. From 1917 to 1919 he was Director of the Division of Metallurgy of the Technical Section of the Air Service, A.E.F.

Professor Sauveur contributed many articles to the technical press, and was founder and editor of The Metallographist from 1898 to 1903 and of The Iron ani Steel Magazine from 1903 to 1906. In 1921 he published his text-book on The Metallography and Heat Treatment of Iron and Steel.” To the Iron and Steel Institute he submitted six papers : Further Notes on the Hardening of Steel ” (1896, jointly with Professor H. M. Howe); “ The Relation between the Structure of Steel and its Thermal and Mechanical Treatment ” (1899); The Constitution of Iron-Carbon Alloys ” (1906); “ The Allotropic Transformations of Iron ” (1913); ‘‘ Dendritic Segrega¬tion in Iron-Carbon Alloys ” (1925, jointly with V. N. Krivobok); and “ The Influence of Strain and of Heat on the Hardness of Iron and Steel ” (1925, jointly with D. C. Lee).

Professor Sauveur received honours from many countries. He was an Officer of the Order of Leopold of Belgium, a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour of France and an Officer of the Academy of France. In 1913 he received the Elliott-Cresson Gold Medal of the Franklin Institute, and in 1924 was awarded the Bessemer Gold Medal by the Iron and Steel Institute. He was the first to receive the Albert Sauveur Achievement Medal established in his honour by the American Society for Metals, and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science by the Case School of Applied Science (1921), Grenoble University (1924), the University of San Marcas, Peru (1925), and Harvard University (1926), while the degree of Doctor of Engineering was conferred on him by Lehigh University (1926). He was the Henry M. Howe Lecturer before the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers in 1924; President of the John Fritz Medal Board of Awards in 1916-1917; Vice-President of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers (1910-1912); a Fellow of the Academy of Arts and Sciences; a member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Iron and Steel Institute, the Institute of Metals, the American Society for Testing Materials; an honorary member of the American Society for Steel Treating, the Society of Engineers of Liege School of Mines; and a corresponding member of the French Society for the Encourage¬ment of National Industry. He was elected a Member of the Iron and Steel Institute in 1904.

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