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Citizenship
  
USA


Influences
  
Theodore Roosevelt

Name
  
Marc Meyers

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Born
  
August 10, 1946 (age 78) Belo Horizonte, Brazil (
1946-08-10
)

Nationality
  
American, Brazilian, Luxembourg

Fields
  
Materials Science, writer

Known for
  
Dynamic behavior of materials, synthesis, processing, and characterization of new materials, including nanocrystalline and ultrafine grain materials and biological materials

Books
  
Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Mayan Mars: A Novel, Chechnya Jihad, Mechanical Behavior of Material

Doctoral advisor
  
Prof. R. N. Orava

Abalone Shell for Armor - Professor Marc Andre Meyers


Marc André Meyers is an American materials scientist, engineer and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego. Meyers studies and writes about the dynamic behavior of materials, synthesis, processing, impact testing, and characterization of new materials. He also studies the properties of biological materials, and in particular the protective coverings of animals. Abalone shells, toucan beaks, the scales of exotic fish, feathers, piranha teeth, rabbit skin, boxfish, turtle and armadillo carapaces, and pangolin scales are some of the biological materials studied by his group.

Meyers was born in Brazil. In the summer of 2014, he organized a group to follow the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition along the "River of Doubt".

Meyers is the recipient of many awards and recognitions and has been inducted as a Fellow of the American Society for Metals (ASM International (society)), The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) and the American Physical Society (APS).

In addition to being a researcher, Meyers is also a fiction writer and has published four novels. These books retell stories and drama from many years of working in university research departments. His novels include:

  • "A Dama E O Luxemburgues" ("D'Amour et d'Acier", in French translation)
  • "Chechnya Jihad"
  • "Mayan Mars"
  • "Abscission/Implosion"
  • "Yanomami: A novel"
  • References

    Marc A. Meyers Wikipedia


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