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JULIA R. WEERTMAN
Pages 396-401

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... Murphy Professor Emerita of Materials Science and Engineering at ­ Northwestern University. Her life and career were marked by numerous firsts.
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... She collaborated with Hans on some of his work, and in the early 1960s, with him and Morris Fine (NAE 1973) , coedited the Macmillan Series on Materials Science based on graduate courses offered at Northwestern University (NU)
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... She contributed substantially to understanding of boundary interactions, mechanical properties, basic deformation processes, and failure mechanisms in a variety of materials, from nanocrystalline metals to high-temperature structural alloys -- she studied the former long before "nano" became a popular area in materials science. She also examined the mechanical behavior of materials where grain boundaries determine their strength and deformation characteristics.
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... She was a fellow of ASM International, the Neutron Society of America, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the first woman named a fellow by TMS-AIME. In 2014 the MSE Department at Northwestern established the Johannes and Julia Randall Weertman Graduate Fellowship in honor of the couple's contributions to materials science and to the university.
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... And most of all, enjoy what you do." Julia enjoyed gardening, traveling, jazz, border collies, and collecting southwestern Pueblo and Hopi pottery. She is remembered as a dedicated teacher, pioneering researcher, valued colleague, and friend, a woman of warmth and inspiration who made seminal contributions to her field.
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