Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science

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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.

Contents 1 Goldsmiths' Professors of Metallurgy 2 Goldsmiths' Professors of Materials Science 3 Sources 4 References

[edit] Goldsmiths' Professors of Metallurgy

• 1932 Robert Hutton (retired 1942)
• 1945 George Wesley Austin
• 1958 Sir Alan Cottrell (resigned 1965)
• 1966 Robert Honeycombe
• 1984 Derek Hull (retired 1991)

[edit] Goldsmiths' Professors of Materials Science

• 1992 Colin John Humphreys

[edit] Sources

• Cambridge University Officers

[edit] References

1. ^ Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy