Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, 1851 - 1935

Abstract

Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, who died on 16 December, 1935, had for a long time lived in retirement owing to ill-health, and was scarcely known to the present generation of metallurgists. Nearly 60 years ago, how ever, he was associated with his cousin, the late Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, in experiments which ultimately led to the establishment of the Basic Bessemer Process.