Gustav W. Elmen

(1876-1957) lived in Lincoln. Electrical engineer, inventor, known for inventing magnetic materials used in electronic communications, especially the nickel-iron alloy named "Permalloy", which he developed in 1916 for Western Electric Company, later incorporated by Bell Telephone Laboratories. He held over 40 patents, and was awarded the John Scott Medal in 1927 by City of Philadelphia and the Modern Pioneer Award from the National Association of Manufacturers in 1940. Consult UNL Nebraska Alumnus, January 1926, p. 25 and New York Times obituary, December 11, 1957, p. 31 and National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol 43 (1961) 281 and Who Was Who in America, Vol 3 (1963) 258.

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