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Radclyffe Furness
Radclyffe Furness (November 20, 1868 – January 12, 1936) was a chemist educated at Princeton University and Harvard University. He specialized in metallurgy. His father was the noted American architect Frank Furness.
He worked for a year in the art department of the "Philadelphia North American", a daily morning newspaper.
In 1907, after working at other jobs, he was employed by the Midvale Steel Company of the Nicetown neighborhood of Philadelphia, from which his father had been laid off 21 years earlier. His first job was open hearth clerk for a melter. Foley was recognized as unusually capable by the head of the melting department, Radclyffe Furness, a Harvard-educated chemist, and educated himself in metallurgy and crystallography