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Noun: Bessemer  be-su-mu(r)
  1. British inventor and metallurgist who developed the Bessemer process (1813-1898)
    - Sir Henry Bessemer

Type of: artificer, discoverer, inventor, metallurgical engineer, metallurgist

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