Alastair Pilkington | |
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| Born | 7 January 1920 Calcutta, India |
| Died | 5 May 1995 |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Engineer |
| Engineering career | |
| Significant advance | float glass process |
Sir Lionel Alexander Bethune Pilkington OBE FRS[1] (7 January 1920 – 5 May 1995), known as Sir Alastair Pilkington, was a British engineer and businessman who invented and perfected the float glass process for commercial manufacturing of plate glass.
- ^ Oxley, B. W. (2022). "Lionel Alexander Bethune (Alastair) Pilkington. 7 January 1920—5 May 1995". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 74: 339–361. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2022.0025. S2CID 254878265.