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Also Known As	Siemens-Martin process

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Sir William Siemens, engraving after a portrait by Rudolf Lehmann

Sir William Siemens

British inventor

Pierre-Émile Martin.

Pierre-Émile Martin

French engineer

John Fritz

American authority on iron and steel