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.[http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/ 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
- 1958 Sir Alan Cottrell (resigned 1965)
- 1966 Robert Honeycombe{{Citation|url=http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2007091903|title=Tributes paid to Professor Sir Robert Honeycombe (1921–2007)|date=2007-09-19|accessdate=2009-03-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606213316/http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2007091903|archive-date=2011-06-06|url-status=dead}}
- 1984 Derek Hull (retired 1991)
- 1990 Sir Colin John Humphreys{{Citation|url=http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2003041501|title=Old Testament: new ideas|date=2003-01-16|accessdate=2009-03-30}}
- 2008 Anthony Cheetham
Goldsmiths' Professors of Materials Science
- 2018 Manish Chhowalla{{Citation|url=http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2017-18/weekly/6512/section2.shtml|title=Professor Manish Chhowalla, B.S., Rutgers University, Ph.D., CHU, Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers University, elected Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science with effect from 1 July 2018.|date=2018-06-27|accessdate=2018-10-25}}
Sources
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071209060605/http://cus.cam.ac.uk/~jld1/lists/ Cambridge University Officers]
References
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Category:1931 establishments in England
Materials Science, Goldsmiths'
Category:Faculty of Physics and Chemistry, University of Cambridge