- Lloyd Montgomery Pidgeon
Lloyd Montgomery Pidgeon, O.C., M.B.E., Ph.D., LL.D. (
December 3 1903 –December 9 1999 ) was a Canadian chemist who developed thePidgeon process , one of the methods ofmagnesium metal production, via a silicothermic reduction. He is considered the "father" of academic metallurgical research in Canada.Born in
Markham, Ontario , the son of E. Leslie Pidgeon, anUnited Church of Canada minister, and Edith Gilker, he received a Bachelor of Arts in science from theUniversity of Manitoba in 1925, a Master of Science fromMcGill University in 1927, and a Ph.D. in chemistry from McGill University in 1929. He was awarded a Sir William Ramsay Memorial Fellowship from Oxford University and worked under Sir Alfred Egerton from 1929 to 1931.In 1931, he joined the
National Research Council . In 1943, he was appointed chairman of the department of metallurgy at theUniversity of Toronto . He retired in 1969.In 1996, he was made an Officer of the
Order of Canada . He was made a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Canada in 1943. He was inducted into theCanadian Mining Hall of Fame .He married Frances Rundle. They had two children.
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