Norman P. Goss

Norman P. Goss (February 4, 1906 – October 28, 1977) was an inventor and researcher from Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

He graduated from Case Institute of Technology in 1925. He made significant contributions to the field of metals research, and in 1935 he published a paper^[1] and patented a method^[2] to obtain so-called grain-oriented electrical steel, which has highly anisotropic magnetic properties. This special "grain-oriented" structure was named after its inventor and it is referred to as the "GOSS structure".

Grain-oriented electrical steel enabled the development of highly efficient electrical machines, especially transformers. Today, the magnetic cores of all high-voltage high-power transformers are made of grain-oriented electrical steel.

References

1. ^ Norman P. Goss, New Development in Electrical Strip Steels Characterized by Fine Grain Structure Approaching the Properties of a Single Crystal, Transactions of the American Society for Metals, Vol. 23, pp. 511-531, 1935.
2. ^ Norman P. Goss, Electrical sheet and method and apparatus for its manufacture and test, US Patent 1,965,559

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Name	Goss, Norman P.
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Date of birth	February 4, 1906
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Date of death	October 28, 1977
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