Edgar Collins Bain (September 14, 1891 – November 27, 1971) was an American

metallurgist Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys. Metallurgy encompasses both the sc ...

and member of the National Academy of Sciences, who worked for the

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Corporation of

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. He worked on the

alloy An alloy is a mixture of chemical elements of which at least one is a metal. Unlike chemical compounds with metallic bases, an alloy will retain all the properties of a metal in the resulting material, such as electrical conductivity, ductilit ...

ing and

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of steel;

Bainite Bainite is a plate-like microstructure that forms in steels at temperatures of 125–550 °C (depending on alloy content). First described by E. S. Davenport and Edgar Bain, it is one of the products that may form when austenite (the face-c ...

is named in his honor. He was born near

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to Milton Henry (of Scottish descent) and Alice Anne Collins Bain. He graduated with a B.S. from

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in 1912. He received his M.S. in 1916 and his Ph.D. in 1919 both from Ohio State. His written works include ''Functions of the Alloying Elements in Steel'', published by

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. He died on November 27, 1971 in

Edgeworth, Pennsylvania Edgeworth is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, along the Ohio River approximately 14 miles (22.5 km) northwest of Pittsburgh. The population was 1,680 at the 2010 census. Edgeworth is the wealthiest town in Pennsylvania. History E ...

. He was elected in 1923 a Fellow of the American Physical Society. (search on year=1923 and institution=All)

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National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir
American metallurgists 1891 births 1971 deaths People from LaRue, Ohio Ohio State University College of Engineering alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Fellows of the American Physical Society Fellows of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society {{US-engineer-stub