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Nemat-Nasser, S

LC control no.n 80150267
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Personal name headingNemat-Nasser, S.
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Variant(s)Nasser, S. Nemat-
Nemat-Nasser, Sia
Nemat-Nasser, Siavouche
Other standard no.000000011673092X
74433930
Q10371294
Associated countryUnited States
LocatedLa Jolla (San Diego, Calif.)
Birth date1936-04-14
Death date2021-01-04
Place of birthTehran (Iran)
AffiliationUniversity of California, San Diego Northwestern University
Profession or occupationMechanical engineers Materials scientists College teachers
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Found inAuthor's Mechanics today, 1974-
Hydraulic fracturing and geothermal energy, 1983: CIP t.p. (Siavouche Nemat-Nasser)
Amer. men/women sci., 1982 (Nemat-Nasser, Siavouche; b. Tehran, Iran, 4/14/36)
His Micromechanics, 1998: CIP t.p. (Sia Nemat-Nasser, Dept. Applied Mechanics & Engineering Sciences, Univ. Calif., San Diego)
Information from 678 converted Dec. 19, 2014 (Dept. of Civil Eng., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, Ill.)
UC San Diego campus notice, Jan. 15, 2021 (University of California San Diego engineering professor emeritus Siavouche "Sia" Nemat-Nasser passed away on January 4, 2021; He was 84 years old. Professor Nemat-Nasser was a Distinguished Professor of Mechanics and Materials in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. He officially retired from UC San Diego in 2019 but remained active as a researcher through his Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials (CEAM). He was born in Tehran, Iran, and immigrated to the US in 1958 to complete his undergraduate degree at Sacramento State College (now University). He earned his MS and PhD degrees from UC Berkeley in 1961 and 1964, respectively. He joined the UC San Diego faculty twice, first from 1966 to 1970. He went on to a brilliant 15-year career at Northwestern University. He then returned to the UC San Diego faculty in 1985 where he served as the Director of CEAM until his retirement; Nemat-Nasser himself translated poetry from Farsi to English. He also wrote his own poetry in Farsi, illustrated it, and translated it into English)
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