# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/adolf-martens
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:30:20.902Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/adolf-martens"
name: "Adolf Martens"
slug: "adolf-martens"
description: "Adolf Martens was a German metallurgist and the namesake of the steel structure martensite and the martensitic transformation, a type of diffusionless phase transition in the solid state. He also made significant contributions to the field of tribology. The functional relationship between the coefficient of friction and the product of sliding speed and viscosity divided by the normal load was experimentally explored by Adolf Martens in 1888, long before Richard Stribeck made his pioneering measurements in 1902."
tagline: "German metallurgist (1850–1914)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1850-03-06"
deathDate: "1914-07-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump