Albert Sauveur

Albert Sauveur (French pronunciation: [albɛʁ sovœʁ]; 21 June 1863 – 26 January 1939) was a Belgian-born American metallurgist.

He studied at the Athénée Royal in Brussels, then the School of Mines, Liège and graduated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1889.

[1] After several years working in industry, where he pioneered the use of microscopes to study the internal structure of steel, Sauveur joined Harvard University as a Instructor in Metallurgy, becoming Professor of Metallurgy in 1905.

From 1924 to 1939, he held the Gordon McKay Professor of Mining and Metallurgy title at the university.

He was a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the Iron and Steel Institute of Great Britain, the Iron and Steel Institute of America.