Eugen Piwowarsky (10 November 1891 – 17 November 1953) was a German

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 ...

. Piwowarsky was born in Leschnitz ( pl, Leśnica),

Prussian Silesia The Province of Silesia (german: Provinz Schlesien; pl, Prowincja Śląska; szl, Prowincyjŏ Ślōnskŏ) was a province of Prussia from 1815 to 1919. The Silesia region was part of the Prussian realm since 1740 and established as an official p ...

, and educated at the Technische Hochschule Breslau. He taught at

RWTH Aachen RWTH Aachen University (), also known as North Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Technical University of Aachen, University of Aachen, or ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hoch ...

and died in

Aachen Aachen ( ; ; Aachen dialect: ''Oche'' ; French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle; or ''Aquisgranum''; nl, Aken ; Polish: Akwizgran) is, with around 249,000 inhabitants, the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the 28th- ...

Literary works

* ''Hochwertiger Grauguss und die physikalisch-metallurgischen Grundlagen seiner Herstellung'', 1929 1891 births 1953 deaths German metallurgists 20th-century German chemists Academic staff of RWTH Aachen University People from the Province of Silesia People from Strzelce County Engineers from Aachen {{Poland-scientist-stub