George L. Norris
George L. Norris ( -1942)
1942 Obituary.[1]
GEORGE L. NORRIS died on April 13th, 1942; he was seventy-six years old. Graduating from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1887, he became associated with the Pennsylvania Steel Co., the North Chicago Rolling Mills, the Illinois Steel Co., the Pencoyd Iron Works, the Reading Iron Co., the Walter A. Wood Harvester Co., the Great Northern Railroad, the Laconia Car Co., the McNeil Pipe and Foundry Co. and the Standard Steel Works at Burnham, Pa., where he was engineer of tests. In 1909 he joined the American Vanadium Co., and was one of the pioneers in the development and application of vanadium; he remained with the company when it became the Vanadium Corporation of America, and was still actively engaged as chief metallurgist at the time of his death.
Mr. Norris was Chairman of the New York Chapter of the American Society for Metals in 1921. He joined The Iron and Steel Institute in 1924.
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- ↑ 1942 Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute