Servet A. Duran (1920–1996) was a Materials Science Professor at Washington State University (WSU) in

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, from the mid-1950s to the early 1980s.

Biography

Duran was born on 2 January 1920, in what was then the Ottoman Empire, and moved to the United States in 1939. He attended Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy and

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. After graduation, in 1947, he became a metallurgy/materials science professor at Washington State University. 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. There is a scholarship in his name at WSU. He died on 23 July 1996 from complications of pneumonia. He was 76.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Duran, Servet A. American materials scientists Turkish emigrants to the United States Washington State University faculty Missouri University of Science and Technology alumni Place of birth missing 1920 births 1996 deaths