Henry Marion Howe

Henry Marion Howe (Boston, 2 March 1848 – Bedford Hills, New York, 14 May 1922) was an American metallurgist, the son of Samuel Gridley Howe and Julia Ward Howe.

Education
Howe attended the Boston Latin School, class of 1865, then Harvard College, class of 1869. In 1871, he graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) with a degree of "graduate in the department of geology and mining science", later renamed a Bachelor of Science. He received an A.M. degree in 1872 and an LL.D. in 1905 from Harvard.

Career
He worked in industry from 1872 to 1882 in the iron and then the copper industries, in the U.S., Chile, Quebec, New Jersey, and Arizona. From 1883 to 1897, he was a consulting metallurgist in Boston, and simultaneously a lecturer at M.I.T. His first book, Copper Smelting, was published in 1885. His second book, The Metallurgy of Steel, was published in 1891. In 1897, he took a chair in metallurgy at Columbia University. In 1903, he published his Iron, Steel, and Other Alloys. He wrote the "Iron and Steel" article for the Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition (1911). He retired in 1913 and devoted himself to research in his Green Peace Laboratory at his home in Bedford Hills. In 1916, he published The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron.

Personal life
Howe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 2, 1848. He married Fannie Gay in 1874. He died on May 14, 1922, after a year-long illness.

Honors
Howe was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1891, elected president of the American Institute of Mining Engineers in 1893, elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1897, and made chairman of the American Society for Testing Materials in 1900. He became a member of the National Research Council in 1918 and became its chairman in 1919.
 * 1895 Bessemer Gold Medal of the Iron and Steel Institute
 * 1895: Elliott Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia
 * 1917 John Fritz Gold Medal of the American Association of Engineering Societies (then called the United Engineering Societies)