Julia Weertman
Julia Randall Weertman (February 10, 1926 – July 31, 2018) was an American materials scientist who taught at Northwestern University as the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering.
Julia Randall Weertman | |
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| Born | February 10, 1926 |
| Died | July 31, 2018 |
Education
She was the first female student of the College of Science and Engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, where she earned her baccalaureate and graduate degrees.[1] [2]
Weertman met her husband Johannes at Carnegie, and both later joined the Northwestern University faculty.[3]
Career
In 1986, Julia Weertman was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[4] She became the first woman in the United States to lead a materials science department when she was appointed chair of Northwestern's Department of Materials Science and Engineering the next year.[1] Weertman was granted membership into the National Academy of Engineering in 1988, "for exceptional research on failure mechanisms in high-temperature alloys."[5] In 1989, she became the first female member of the Board of Directors of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.[6]
Fellowships
She was also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, ASM International, the American Physical Society, and the American Geophysical Union and the first female Fellow of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.[1][7]
Death
Weertman died, aged 92, on July 31, 2018.[1]
References
- Gerage, Alex (August 2, 2018). "Professor Emerita Julia Weertman Passes Away". Northwestern University. Retrieved August 6, 2018.
- Goldsborough, Bob. "Julia Weertman, materials science professor at Northwestern who opened doors for women in the field, dies". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
- "Julia Weertman". EngineerGirl. National Academy of Engineering. Retrieved August 6, 2018.
- "Julia R. Weertman". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved August 6, 2018.
- "Dr. Julia R. Weertman". National Academy of Engineering. Retrieved August 6, 2018.
- "TMS Historical Timeline". www.tms.org. Timeline 1989 Entry. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: location (link) - "Remembering Julia and Hans Weertman". JOM. 70 (12): 2773–2774. 1 December 2018. Bibcode:2018JOM....70l2773.. doi:10.1007/s11837-018-3232-2.