Paul André Albert (April 14, 1926 – October 26, 2019) was an American metallurgist.
In the 1970s and 1980s, he helped to develop the class of doped cobalt-chrome alloys still in use in the manufacture of computer hard disks.
During his career at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and then at IBM in Poughkeepsie, New York, in Essex Junction, Vermont, and in San Jose, California, Albert co-authored several other patents on the production of anisotropic magnetic films and the means of recording and reading data in them.
[2][3][4] Albert also contributed to early work on high-density perpendicular recording.
During the 1990s, researchers at ACI Alloys expanded to other thin film markets by developing techniques for the casting of sputtering targets made of fully reacted transition metal alloys such as Gallium Nickel[7] and Germanium Antimony Telluride[8] as well as high-purity arc-cast precious metal targets and evaporation (deposition) materials.