Albert Sauveur, Professor of Metallurgy, Emeritus, Dies; 75

Albert Sauveur, Gordon McKay Professor of Metallography and Metallurgy, emeritus, died yesterday morning at the Deaconess Hospital in Boston, after a week's illness. He was 75 years old and was known as the world's greatest authority on the metallurgy of iron and steel, as well as the founder of the modern science of metallurgy.

Graduate of M.I.T.

He was born in Belgium in 1863, but came to the United States where he graduated from M. I. T., and has lived here ever since. He became a professor of Metallurgy here in 1905. He received many honorary degrees including an Sc. D. from Harvard in 1935, on which occasion President Conant said of him; "Long famous as a founder of the science of metallurgy, a Harvard professor of whose achievements we shall be forever proud."

Active in War

Dr. Sauveur was often consulted by government officials here and in Europe because of his knowledge of iron and steel. During the war he was metallurgist on the American Aviation Commission in France and adviser to the French Ministry of Munitions.

Besides two books on his experiences in the war, he wrote several books and many articles on metallography and the metallurgy of iron and steel. Outside of his honorary degrees he was awarded the Cresson Gold Medal of the Franklin Institute, the Bessemer Medal of the British Iron and Steel Institute, and the Albert Sauveur Achievement Medal of the American Society for Metals.

Pan-American Delegate

In 1924 Professor Sauveur played an important part as United States delegate to the third Pan American Scientific Congress in Peru.

The professor is survived by his widow; two daughters, Mrs. George C. Eaton of Belmont, and Mrs. W. J. R. Taylor of Concord; and a sister, Miss Mary L. Sauveur, of Cambridge.

Funeral services will be held in the Memorial Church at 2:00 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Dean Sperry will conduct the services. He will be buried at Spencer, Massachusetts, the home of Mrs. Sauveur.