Cosman, Cornelius M.

Cornelius M. Cosman (1914-1979) was a metallurgist and minerals consultant. Born in Germany, he came to the United States prior to World War II. He was an associate metallurgist with H.A. Brassert from 1940-1946. After the war, he was a technical advisor to the United States team which prosecuted Alfred Krupp, the German industrialist, at the Nuremberg war crime trials and worked on industrial reconstruction programs in Austria under the Marshall Plan. Cosman was a consultant to the U.S. Materials Policy Commission from 1950-1952, a metallurgical engineer for Vanadium Corporation of America from 1953-1962, a staff engineer for American Metal Climax, Inc. (AMAX) from 1962-1970, manager of materials economics with Parsons-Jurden Corp. from 1970-1972, and the assistant director of the U.S. National Commission on Materials Policy beginning in 1972. He was a member of the U.S. National Commission on Supplies and Shortages (1974-1977) and was president of Mineral Economics Consultants at the time of his death.