Mark Evan Eberhart is an author and a professor of chemistry and geochemistry at the

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Education and career

Eberhart holds a BS in chemistry and in applied mathematics from the

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, an MS in physical biochemistry from the University of Colorado, and a PhD in materials science and engineering from the

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, supervised by Keith H. Johnson and earned in 1983. He became a scientist in the Materials Science and Technology Division of the

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before moving to the Colorado School of Mines in 1992. At the School of Mines, he has been president of the faculty senate; he has also been a Jefferson Science Fellow.

Books

Eberhart has published two books: ''Why Things Break: Understanding the World By the Way It Comes Apart'' (Random House, 2003), an autobiographical book describing his education and his studies of stress and

fracture Fracture is the appearance of a crack or complete separation of an object or material into two or more pieces under the action of stress (mechanics), stress. The fracture of a solid usually occurs due to the development of certain displacemen ...

and ''Feeding the Fire: The Lost History and Uncertain Future of Mankind's Energy Addiction'' (Random House, 2007).Reviews of ''Feeding the Fire''
Anthony Doerr, ''Boston Globe''''Kirkus Reviews''''Publishers Weekly''

References

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