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A sample of a metal piece donated to the Materials Science Engineering department by the family of Ernest Kirkendall, a U-M alum who wrote a very controversial landmark paper in the 1947, proving that metals diffuse into each other in a different way than was widely believed at the tall. He discovered the Kirkendall Effect, which is still taught to MSE students today.

 

Photo: Joseph Xu/Michigan Engineering Senior Producer, University of Michigan

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Uploaded on June 12, 2017
Taken on June 12, 2017