Robert Franklin Mehl

Robert Franklin Mehl (March 30, 1898 – January 29, 1976) was an American metallurgist.Mehl was noted for transforming of nineteenth-century metallurgy into the modern materials science. He was the founder and the head of a division of Physical metallurgy at the Naval Research Laboratory and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. The American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers established a gold medal award in his name in 1973.

• the Matthewson Medal of the Metallurgical Society of the AIME (five times between 1934 and 1947)
• the Howe Medal of the ASM (1939)
• the gold medals of both the ASM (1952) and the AIME (1945)
• the Le Chatelier Medal of the Société Française de Metallurgie (1956)
• four honorary doctorates
• and election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1958

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Mehl was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He graduate from Franklin and Marshall College in 1919.

Mehl received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry and metallurgy from Princeton University in 1924.