Adolf Martens

Adolf Martens (Adolf Karl Gottfried Martens), 6 March 1850 – 24 July 1914, was a German metallurgist and the namesake of the steel structure martensite and the martensitic transformation, a type of diffusionless phase transition in the solid state.[1][2]

Bust of Adolf Martens in Berlin

References

  1. P.D. Portella (2006). "Adolf Martens and his contributions to materials engineering" (PDF). Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM).
  2. Manfred Ahlers (2004). "The Martensitic Transformation". Revista Matéria. 9 (3): 169–183. ISSN 1517-7076.


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