The Goldsmiths' Professorship of Materials Science is a professorship in the
University of Cambridge, 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 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
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* 1958 Sir
Alan Cottrell (resigned 1965)
* 1966
Robert Honeycombe
* 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
Sir Colin John Humphreys, (born 24 May 1941) is a British physicist. He is the Professor of Materials Science at Queen Mary University of London. He is the former Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge and the ...
* 2008
Anthony Cheetham
Goldsmiths' Professors of Materials Science
2018 Manish Chhowalla
Sources
Cambridge University Officers
References
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1931 establishments in England
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