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Walter Shepard Owen 1920-2007
Walter Shepard Owen 1920-2007
Pages 314-321
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His distinguished career as a metallurgist, an academic, and a university administrator was shaped in nearly equal parts in the United Kingdom in Liverpool and in the United States at cornell University, at Northwestern University, but most fully at the Massachusetts institute of Technology (MiT)
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another of his major transformative achievements was the introduction of new undergraduate courses to attract students from the physics and chemistry departments to study metallurgy in their final year. although in those days materials science as a branch of study was only a dream in the minds of a few physical metallurgists, owen persuaded the university in 1964 to establish a new chair of physical metallurgy, which soon after changed to one of materials science.
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He also developed many consulting activities and joined robert Maxwell of Pergamon Press to stimulate broader-based publishing in the fields of metallurgy and materials science. after nine years in departmental and university administration at liverpool, owen, with his new american wife, moved back to the United states to become head of the department of Materials science and engineering at cornell University as the Thomas r.
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owen's technical journal publications numbered in the nineties. in 1977, when owen was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering, his citation read: "For leadership in research on structure/property relationships in metals and in the extension of such concepts to the educational basis of materials science and engineering." Walter owen's unique talents as a researcher but also as an educator and a mentor of students are well represented by the following tribute by frederick schoen, one of his graduate students at cornell University: "I was one of the first doctoral students doing graduate study under Professor Walter owen's tutelage at cornell University, beginning in september 1966, shortly after he arrived from liverpool.
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only in preparation for these remarks did i uncover an article in the cornell engineering Quarterly in 1970 in which he predicted that the field of biomaterials would be a ‘growth area' to which materials science would contribute immensely (and how correct he was)
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Through his leadership, Professor owen established materials science and engineering at cornell as one of the few leading departments of its kind, composed of a distinguished group of materials specialists and strong academic programs. He developed excellent and synergistic collaborations with groups doing physics, chemistry, and mechanics, thereby creating a highly interdisciplinary and intellectually stimulating environment.
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