Johannes Weertman (May 11, 1925 – October 13, 2018) was an American materials scientist and geophysicist.
Born in 1925 in Fairfield, Alabama,[1] Weertman served in the United States Marine Corps for three years.
He then received from Carnegie Institute of Technology his bachelor's degree in 1948 and his Ph.D. in physics in 1951 under the supervision of James Koehler.
As a postdoc Weertman was a Fulbright Fellow at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
In the area of geophysics, we recently developed a theory for the migration of subglacial lakes under ice sheets and earthquake dislocations moving at a transonic velocity on a fault separating rock of sightly different elastic constants.In the area of geophysics, our primary research area is in the theory of the flow of glaciers and ice sheets.