Baldwin Sawyer is an American metallurgist.
After graduating from Yale with a B.S. in Physics in 1943, Sawyer joined the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago. Working with Principal Metallurgist Frank Foote, Sawyer conducted research on uranium and assisted with developing the canning process for the uranium “slugs” used in the reactors at Hanford.
After the war, Sawyer pursued a doctorate in physics at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon). He conducted important work on quartz and pioneering research into silicon at Bell Laboratories. Sawyer later served as vice president and director at Sawyer Research Products, Inc.