Alexandre Pourcel
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.
Life
Pourcel was born in Marseille in 1841.Pourcel studied at the Ecole des Mines in St. Etienne, now École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne.
Pourcel worked all his life at the Forges de Terrenoire or located in .
In 1909 Pourcel was awarded an Honorary Membership in the AIME.
Pourcel died in 1934.