Ali S. Argon

Ali Suphi Argon (born December 19, 1930 in Istanbul , † December 21, 2019 in Belmont , Massachusetts ) was a Turkish - American physicist , materials scientist and university professor .

Life

Argon, son of MA Suphi Argon from a high-ranking Ottoman military and civil servant family and Margarethe born. Grosche from Berlin , attended school in Turkey . In 1948 he began studying mechanical engineering at Purdue University with a BS degree in 1952. This was followed by the SM (Scientiae Magister) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1953. At MIT at Egon Orowan , he turned to materials science and engineering and became 1956 with his dissertation Investigations of The Strength and Anelasticity of Glass for Sc.D. PhD . He felt himself to be Richard Becker's academic grandson . For the next two years he worked at the High Voltage Engineering Corporation in Burlington, Massachusetts on Van de Graaff particle accelerators for research and medical applications (as Marie Curie's scientific grandson ). In 1959 he returned to Turkey to do his military service. In addition, he held a lecture at the new Technical University of the Middle East in Ankara . In 1960 he returned to MIT as an assistant professor . In 1968 he became professor there, Quentin Berg Professor in 1982 and Quentin Berg Professor Emeritus in 2001 .

Argon's experimental and theoretical research in materials science has contributed significantly to the elucidation of the physical processes of plastic deformation and fracture of metals , alloys , ceramics , glass , polymers and composite materials . In 1972 he was visiting professor of polymer physics at the University of Leeds . In 1992 he was a visiting scientist at the Peter Haasens Institute for Metal Physics at the University of Göttingen with the Humboldt Research Prize . He was also a visiting scholar at Stanford University in 1992 .

Argon was married to Xenia geb. Laughing and had two children, the astrophysicist Alice and the environmental biologist Kermit.

Honors

• Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1976)
• Fellow of the American Physical Society (1987)
• Member of the National Academy of Engineering (1989)
• Nadai Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1998)
• Staudinger - Durrer Prize of the ETH Zurich (1999)
• Heyn commemorative coin of the German Society for Material Science (2004)
• Honorary Doctorate from Purdue University (2005)

Works

• Frank A. McClintock , Ali S. Argon: Mechanical Behavior of Materials . Addison-Wesley, 1966, ISBN 0-201-04545-1 .
• UF Kocks, AS Argon, MF Ashby: Thermodynamics And Kinetics of Slip . In: Progress In Materials Science . tape 19 , 1975, p. 1-281 .
• Ali S. Argon: Strengthening Mechanisms In Crystal Plasticity . Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-965922-7 .
• AS Argon: The Physics of Deformation and Fracture of Polymers . Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-521-82184-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Professor Ali S. Argon. In: The Boston Globe. Legacy.com, accessed December 28, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Marc A. Meyers: Brief biography of Ali S. Argon: Winner of the 2015 MSEA Journal Prize . In: Materials Science and Engineering A . tape 670 , 2016, p. A1 – A3 , doi : 10.1016 / j.msea.2016.05.064 ( sciencedirect.com [PDF]).
3. ↑ MIT: Quentin Berg Professor Emeritus Ali Argon (accessed July 21, 2016).
4. ^ Purdue University: 2005 Honorary Degree Ali S. Argon Doctor Of Engineering (accessed July 21, 2016).