Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science
The Goldsmiths' Professorship of Materials Science is a professorship in the University of Cambridge, associated with the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.[1]
The professorship was established by grace of 20 November 1931 as the Goldsmiths' Professorship of Metallurgy to replace the Goldsmiths' Readership in Metallurgy. A further gift of £12,500 was received from the Goldsmiths' Company in 1933. It was retitled the Goldsmiths' Professorship of Materials Science by grace 4 of 19 June 1991.
Goldsmiths' Professors of Metallurgy
- 1932 Robert Hutton (retired 1942)
- 1945 George Wesley Austin
- 1958 Sir Alan Cottrell (resigned 1965)
- 1966 Robert Honeycombe[2]
- 1984 Derek Hull (retired 1991)
- 1990 Colin John Humphreys[3]
Goldsmiths' Professors of Materials Science
2008 Anthony Cheetham[4]
Sources
References
- ↑ Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy
- ↑ Tributes paid to Professor Sir Robert Honeycombe (1921–2007), 2007-09-19, retrieved 2009-03-30
- ↑ Old Testament: new ideas, 2003-01-16, retrieved 2009-03-30
- ↑ Report of the General Board on the establishment of a single-tenure Professorship of Materials Science, 2007-05-04, retrieved 2009-03-30
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