The Goldsmiths' Professorship of Materials Science is a professorship in the

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, associated with the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. 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 The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, commonly known as the Goldsmiths' Company and formally titled The Wardens and Commonalty of the Mystery of Goldsmiths of the City of London, is one of the Great Twelve Livery Companies of the City of Londo ...

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 Sir Alan Howard Cottrell, FRS (17 July 1919 – 15 February 2012) was an English metallurgist and physicist. He was also former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government and vice-chancellor of Cambridge University 1977–1979. Early ...

(resigned 1965) * 1966

Robert Honeycombe Sir Robert William Kerr Honeycombe, (2 May 1921 – 14 September 2007) was a Goldsmiths' Professor of Metallurgy and Professor Emeritus of the University of Cambridge. He was an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Born in Melbourne, Austra ...

* 1984

Derek Hull Derek Hull FREng, FRS (born 8 August 1931) is a British material scientist, and Henry Bell Wortley Chair of Metallurgy, at the University of Liverpool.http://sca.lib.liv.ac.uk/ead/search?operation=full&rsid=136233&firstrec=1&numreq=20&highlight= ...

(retired 1991) * 1990 Sir Colin John Humphreys * 2008

Anthony Cheetham Sir Anthony Kevin Cheetham (born 16 November 1946) is a British materials scientist. From 2012 to 2017 he was Vice-President and Treasurer of the Royal Society. Education Cheetham was educated at Stockport Grammar School and read chemistry at ...

Goldsmiths' Professors of Materials Science

2018 Manish Chhowalla

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Cambridge University Officers

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