Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science explained

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.

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. http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/ Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy