Percy Carlyle Gilchrist

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Percy Carlyle Gilchrist (born December 27, 1851 in Lyme Regis , † December 16, 1935 ) was a British chemist and metallurgist .

Gilchrist graduated from the Royal School of Mines . He is best known for his collaboration with his cousin, the metallurgist Sidney Thomas , where both of them developed a process for dephosphorization of iron ( Thomas process ). On June 4, 1891, he became a member of the Royal Society .

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SURNAME Gilchrist, Percy Carlyle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Metallurgist and co-inventor of the Thomas process
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyme Regis
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1935