Clarence Marvin Wayman, 76, of Urbana died Sunday, July 29, 2007 at 4:20 am at Provena Covenant Medical Center in Urbana, Illinois.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 pm at Renner-Wikoff Chapel, 1900 S. Philo Road in Urbana. Funeral services will follow at 7 p.m. Reverend Don Mason of the First Presbyterian Church of Urbana will officiate. Private burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery, Champaign, Illinois.

Professor Wayman was born August 12, 1930 in Wheeling, West Virginia, a son of Clarence McCollough Wayman and Mary Lou Leach Wayman. He married Patricia Louise Smith on January 28, 1956 who survives him.

Survivors also include their two children and their families: Karen Wayman Tudor and Martin Tudor of Washington, Missouri and their son Jonathan Tudor, Stephen Wayman and Christine Wayman of Urbana, his children Kristen Wayman and Michael Wayman, and her children Shelby Geers and Nicholas Geers. He is also survived by sisters Dona Wayman of Pawling, NY, Becky Schau of Shelby, NC and his brother David Wayman of Alison Park, PA and their spouses and families. Margaret Salmons, Sadorus, treasured caregiver and friend for 14 years also survives him.

He studied Metallurgical Engineering at Purdue University, receiving the degrees of B.S. with Distinction in 1952 and M.S. in 1955. From 1952-1954 he served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force Materials Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base and was honorably discharged. He entered Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. in 1955 and received a Ph.D. degree in Metallurgy in 1957, following which he joined the University of Illinois where he was named Professor of Metallurgy in 1965 at the age of 35, and where he taught for 39 years.

Professor Wayman has researched the field of martensitic transformations for 30 years during which he has published over 400 papers, more than 100 of which deal with shape memory materials. He has edited numerous books on crystallography of martensitic transformations and has also been translated into Japanese and Chinese. His work on martensitic transformations has been recognized by the AIME Mathewson Gold Medal, Eminent Faculty Award of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois, Honorary Professorships at two Chinese universities and Fellowships in ASM International, the Metallurgical Society of AIME, the Institution of Metallurgists, the Japan Society for Promotion of Science, the Guggenheim Foundation, and Churchill College at the University of Cambridge. He has been chairman of several international conferences and a keynote speaker, and was an international consultant in the field for many years, traveling to Japan, China and Europe numerous times.

His hobbies included woodworking, gardening, piano, barbequing and watching U of I sports.

Memorials may be made to the University of Illinois Department of Materials Science and Engineering for a scholarship in the Metallurgical Engineering Program.