Julia Randall Weertman (February 10, 1926 – July 31, 2018) was an American materials scientist who taught at Northwestern University as the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering.
She was the first female student of the College of Science and Engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, where she earned her baccalaureate and graduate degrees.
[1][2] Weertman met her husband Johannes at Carnegie, and both later joined the Northwestern University faculty.
[1] Weertman was granted membership into the National Academy of Engineering in 1988, "for exceptional research on failure mechanisms in high-temperature alloys.
"[5] In 1989, she became the first female member of the Board of Directors of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.