Thomas Turner (metallurgist)

"[2] From 1894-1902 he was Director of Technical Instruction to Staffordshire County Council, but in 1902 was chosen as the first Professor of Metallurgy in the newly established University of Birmingham.

His most notable work was seminal research in the influence of silicon in cast iron.

On 13th December 1916, he was among three members of the Institute of Metals (alongside Sir George Beilby and Professor Alfred Kirby Huntington) to propose the election of Georgina Elizabeth Kermode.

He was awarded the Bessemer Gold Medal of the Iron and Steel Institute in 1925.

[4] In this function he was also involved in support of the Gemeinde in Germany, corresponding with Albert Maier and Ludwig von Gerdtell.