In Memory of Clarence Marvin Wayman, 1930-2007

JOM, Oct 2007

On July 29, Clarence Marvin Wayman, 76, of Urbana, Illinois, passed away after a protracted illness. Wayman, a former professor of metallurgy at the University of Illinois, was elected a TMS fellow in 1988.

Wayman studied metallurgical engineering at Purdue University, receiving the degrees of B.S. with Distinction in 1952andM.S.in 1955. From 1952-1954 he served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force Materials Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base and was honorably discharged. He entered Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1955 and received a Ph.D. in metallurgy in 1957, after which he joined the University of Illinois. There, he served a term as acting head of the department, among other administrative assignments. He retired from the university in 1995.

Wayman researched the field of martensitic transformations for 30 years, during which he published more than 400 papers, more than 100 of which deal with shape memory materials. He edited numerous books on martensitic transformations and authored a seminal book on crystallography of martensitic transformations that has been translated into Japanese and Chinese. His work on martensitic transformations has been recognized by the AIME Mathewson Gold Medal, Eminent Faculty Award of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois, honorary professorships at two Chinese universities, and fellowships in TMS, ASM International, the Institution of Metallurgists, the Japan Society for Promotion of Science, the Guggenheim Foundation, and Churchill College at the University of Cambridge.

Memorials may be made to the University of Illinois Department of Materials Science and Engineering for a scholarship in his name.