Servet A. Duran

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Servet A. Duran (1920–1996) was a Materials Science Professor at Washington State University (WSU) in Pullman, Washington, from the mid-1950s to the early 1980s.

Biography[]

Duran was born on 2 January 1920, in Turkey, and moved to the United States in 1939. He attended Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy and Stanford University. After graduation, in 1947, he became a metallurgy/materials science professor at Washington State University.[citation needed] From 1956 to 1958, he was a visiting professor at Stanford University, and in 1969, he was a visiting professor and consultant to Middle East Technical Institute in Ankara, Turkey.

He used a textbook he wrote called Introduction to Materials Science, Copyright S. A. Duran, 1971, Revised 1980.[1] There is a scholarship in his name at WSU.[2] He died on 23 July 1996 from complications of pneumonia. He was 76.

References[]

  1. ^ Duran, Servet (1971). Introduction To Materials Science. Pullman, WA: Self.
  2. ^ "The School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering - Scholarships". Washington State University. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
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