Alfred Stansfield

Alfred Stansfield FRSC ARSM (1871 – 5 February 1944) was a British-Canadian metallurgist and Birks Professor of Metallurgy at McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1901–36).

[1] His research focussed on pyrometry, the Solution Theory of Carburized Iron, the constitution of alloys, the burning of steel, smelting titaniferous ores of iron, electric smelting, graphical methods of teaching Thermochemistry and the investigation of metallurgical reactions at high temperatures.

In 1915, he was a Member of a Commission appointed by the Canadian Minister of Defence to investigate the feasibility of producing refined copper and zinc.

[1][2][3] Stansfield was an Associate of the Royal School of Mines (ARSM) and was awarded the Plummer Medal by the Engineering Institute of Canada in 1921.

Ethel's sister, Edith Grubb, married Alfred's brother Herbert Stansfield.