Dmitry Chernov

Dmitry Konstantinovich Chernov
Дмитрий Константинович Чернов
BornNovember 1, 1839
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
DiedJanuary 2, 1921 (aged 81)
Yalta, Taurida Governorate, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
OccupationMetallurgist

Dmitry Konstantinovich Chernov (or Tchernov, Russian: Дмитрий Константинович Чернов; November 1 [O.S. 1839] 1839 Saint-Petersburg - January 2, 1921 Yalta) was a Russian metallurgist. He is known by his discovery of polymorphous transformations in steel and the iron-carbon phase diagram. This discovery is the beginning of scientific metallography.

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