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Pierre-Émile Martin

1824 - 1915

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Pierre-Émile Martin (French: [pjɛʁ emil maʁtɛ̃]; 18 August 1824, Bourges, Cher – 23 May 1915, Fourchambault) was a French industrial engineer. He applied the principle of recovery of the hot gas in an open hearth furnace, a process invented by Carl Wilhelm Siemens. In 1865, based on the Siemens process, he implemented the process which bears his name for producing steel in a hearth by remelting scrap steel with the addition of cast iron for the dilution of impurities. His work earned him the award of the Bessemer Gold Medal of the Iron and Steel Institute in 1915 and of the French nation (knight in 1878 then Officer of the Legion of Honour in 1910). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre-Émile Martin is the 142nd most popular engineer (down from 140th in 2019), the 2,832nd most popular biography from France (down from 2,692nd in 2019) and the 16th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Pierre-Émile Martin ranks 142 out of 389. Before him are Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Johan August Brinell, Joseph M. Juran, Alexandre Darracq, John Loudon McAdam, and Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto. After him are J. Walter Christie, Georges Leclanché, Vitaly Abalakov, Franz Reuleaux, John Scott Russell, and Hellmuth Walter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Pierre-Émile Martin ranks 43. Before him are Maria Beatrix of Austria-Este, Gustave Boulanger, Louis II, Grand Duke of Baden, Mikhail Loris-Melikov, Emmanuel Frémiet, and Michael Madhusudan Dutt. After him are Vladimir Stasov, Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz, Avram Iancu, Branko Radičević, Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, and Francesc Pi i Margall. Among people deceased in 1915, Pierre-Émile Martin ranks 50. Before him are Anatoly Stessel, Karl Lamprecht, Danilo Ilić, Akaki Tsereteli, Theodor Boveri, and Józef Brandt. After him are Walter Crane, Otto Weddigen, Vazha-Pshavela, Inoue Kaoru, Richard Lydekker, and Eugène Jansson.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre-Émile Martin ranks 2,832 out of 6,770. Before him are Marie Alfred Cornu (1841), Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate (1652), Philippe Nahon (1938), Pierre Bézier (1910), Jean Pierre Flourens (1794), and Jacques Massu (1908). After him are Zizi Jeanmaire (1924), Charles Floquet (1828), Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse (1732), Julius Leber (1891), Marcel Griaule (1898), and Jean Raspail (1925).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Pierre-Émile Martin ranks 16. Before him are Paul Cornu (1881), André Courrèges (1923), François Laurent d'Arlandes (1742), Henry Darcy (1803), Léon Charles Thévenin (1857), and Alexandre Darracq (1855). After him are Georges Leclanché (1836), Marc Seguin (1786), Gabriel Voisin (1880), Pierre Berthier (1782), Antoine de Chézy (1718), and Louis Charles Breguet (1880).

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