Alexandre Pourcel was a French steelmaker who won the Bessemer Gold Medal in 1909.
He developed ferro-manganese and showed his work at the 1878 World's Fair, where it interested Robert Hadfield so much that he invented Mangalloy as a result.
[2] Pourcel studied at the Ecole des Mines in St. Etienne, now École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne.
[2] Pourcel worked all his life at the Forges de Terrenoire or Compagnie des Fonderies et Forges de Terrenoire [fr] located in Terrenoire [fr] (now part of Saint-Étienne).
[2] In 1909 Pourcel was awarded an Honorary Membership in the AIME.