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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.

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
• 1984 Derek Hull (retired 1991)
• 1990 Sir Colin John Humphreys
• 2008 Anthony Cheetham

Goldsmiths' Professors of Materials Science

2018 Manish Chhowalla

Sources

• Cambridge University Officers

References

1. Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy
2. Tributes paid to Professor Sir Robert Honeycombe (1921–2007), 2007-09-19, archived from the original on 2011-06-06, retrieved 2009-03-30
3. Old Testament: new ideas, 2003-01-16, retrieved 2009-03-30
4. 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., 2018-06-27, retrieved 2018-10-25

• 1931 establishments in England
• Professorships at the University of Cambridge
• Faculty of Physics and Chemistry, University of Cambridge
• Professorships in metallurgy and materials science
• Goldsmiths' Professors of Materials Science