Rutgers MSE
The CCR is named after this former department chair
Malcolm G. McLaren
Diamond is a polymorph of this common material
graphite
By volume, this material is the most utilized material in the world
concrete
He introduced the labeling system for crystallographic planes and direction
William Miller
These two athletes made history as the first father/son duo to simultaneously play in the NBA
LeBron James Sr. and Jr.
Most MSE labs are located in this wing of the old engineering building
A-Wing
This unit, often used for expressing the magnitude of lattice parameters, is equivalent to 1/10 of a nm
Angstrom
This 1D defect gives rise to plasticity in metallic materials
dislocations
He developed the fundamental equation utilized in X-ray diffraction
William Lawrence Bragg
This Star Wars actor also voices the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series
Mark Hamill
Current faculty members hold more than this many patents combined
200
This crystal system is the least symmetric
triclinic
This material property is the slope of the stress-strain curve in the elastic regime
Young’s modulus/elastic modulus
He is known for his first and second laws regarding diffusion
Adolf Fick
This university was chartered by Ben Franklin’s son ten years before America gained its independence
Rutgers
Essential to modern communication, the low loss version of this invention was co-developed by Rutgers MSE graduate Peter Schultz
Low loss optical fiber
The packing factor for this crystal structure is 52%
simple cubic
This type of free energy is applicable under constant T and P conditions
Gibbs
The statistical method used to predict the failure stress of brittle solids is named after him
Ernst Hjalmar Waloddi Weibull
This continent is the driest on Earth
Antarctica
The Department of Clay-working and Ceramics (now MSE) was originally part of this college
Agriculture College
This defect is characterized by a cation-anion vacancy pair
Schottky
Below a critical temperature, this class of materials exhibits negligible electrical resistance
superconductors
He helped describe diffusion based creep in crystalline solids and shares his last name with a fish
Conyers Herring
This term describes a word that is spelled the same way forwards and backwards
palindrome