Alfred Stansfield employer McGill University
Career
Stansfield was appointed Professor of Metallurgy at McGill University, Montreal in 1901, and later became Birks Professor of Metallurgy and Head of Department of Metallurgy in 1912. He also served as a Commissioner of the Pyx of the Royal Canadian Mint at Ottawa from 1911 to 1931.His research focussed on pyrometry, the Solution Theory of Carburized Iron, the constitution of alloys, the burning of steel, smelting titaniferous ores of iron, electric smelting, graphical methods of teaching Thermochemistry and the investigation of metallurgical reactions at high temperatures. Consequently, he authored several reports for the Canadian government. He reported on the electric smelting of iron ores in Sweden in 1914, on Canadian magnesium production in 1915, and on the electric smelting of iron ores in British Columbia in 1918. In 1915, he was a Member of a Commission appointed by the Canadian Minister of Defence to investigate the feasibility of producing refined copper and zinc. Stansfield retired in 1936. He died in Montreal, Canada, on 5 February 1944.
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