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While at GE Earl Parker did pioneering research on the mechanical properties of metals and alloys. His experiments on steel, copper, copper alloys, and silver resulted in some early insights into how variables such as impurity content, alloying elements, strain rate, and grain structure influenced the mechanical properties of metals.
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In 1944 he became a University of California faculty member in what is now the Department of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering. During the next thirty-three years, Earl Parker made truly outstanding contributions to teaching, to the university, and to the scientific community of the world.
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From 1962 to 1965, the research emphasis of Earl Parker and his group shifted to superconcluctivit,v in metals and ceramics and back to his earlier field of interest in mechanical properties of iron-based alloys. In both these fields, his research led to new fundamental understandings of the relationships between crys
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Much of the understanding and knowledge gleaned from his early years of fundamental metallurgical research, and with the improvement of techniques for study of complex microstructures (such as advanced transmission electron microscopy) , allowed Earl Parker and his collaborators to make major contributions to the development of new processes and steels with improved properties, such as "TRIP" steels, steels that became tougher as they underwent phase transformations while undergoing deformation.
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