Nikolai Timofeevich Beliaev or Nicholas Timothy Belaiew (26 June 1878 – 5 November 1955) was a Russian metallurgist. He was famous for his studies on Damascus steel and the idea of crystallization in metals and the production of
Widmanstatten structures. He also wrote on the history of steel making.
Beliaev was born in
St. Petersburg to General T. M. Beliaev and Maria Nikolayevna Septjurina. He was educated at Mikhailovskaya Artilleriiskaya Academy and was trained under
Dmitry Konstantinovich Chernov and
Henry Le Chatelier
Henry Louis Le Chatelier (; 8 October 1850 – 17 September 1936) was a French chemist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He devised Le Chatelier's principle, used by chemists and chemical engineers to predict the effect a changing conditi ...
. He became a professor of metallurgy in 1909. During World War I he was wounded and he was sent to England in 1915. He received a Bessemer Gold Medal in 1937 from the British Institute of Steel and Iron in London. A major contribution was on the studies of crystal structure in steels both man-made and of meteoric origin and examined their mechanical properties. He also took an interest in Icelandic research.
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1878 births
1955 deaths
Metallurgists