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Iain Finnie 1928-2009
Iain Finnie 1928-2009
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"His early papers remain very highly cited." in the course of his 32-year career at Uc Berkeley, finnie mentored more than 40 doctoral students with whom he wrote more than 185 papers on fatigue of metals, crack propagation, and erosion of materials. He served as chair of the department of Mechanical engineering from 1979 to 1987.
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in 1961, finnie joined the faculty at Uc Berkeley as an associate professor and was promoted to full professor just two years later. in 1965, as part of a Uc team led by erich Thomsen, a recently deceased Berkeley emeritus faculty member, finnie helped establish the engineering department at Universidad católica in santiago, chile.
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all three daughters pursued graduate degrees, including two in mechanical engineering, and each credits her father's influence for her academic and professional drive. finnie spent two sabbatical leaves, in 1976 and 1987, in lausanne, switzerland, where he was a visiting professor at l'École Polytechnique fédérale de lausanne (ePfl)
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We were fortunate to be invited by the chinese government in 1979 to visit china with nine professors and their wives from engineering, Uc Berkeley. The group remained close friends.
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; three grandchildren (a fourth was born in february 2010) ; and his sister, Jean Mackie (of Hong Kong)
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