Robert W. Cahn
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ISBN: 0-08-042679-4 $55 MRS Member Order this Book Online |
The Coming of Materials Science both covers the discipline of materials science and draws an impressionistic map of the present state of the subject.
The first chapter examines the emergence of the materials science concept, in both academia and industry. The second and third chapters delve back into the prehistory of materials science, examining the growth of such concepts as atoms, crystals and thermodynamics. These two chapters also examine the evolution of a number of neighboring disciplines, to see what helpful parallels might emerge.
The book contains numerous literature references. Many refer to the earliest key papers and books, while others are to sources, often books, offering a view of the present state of a topic. Early references are to the past but as the book continues, it brings the reader up to date with more recent sources.
The author, Professor Robert Cahn, FRS (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK), has striven to be critical about the history of the discipline of materials science and to draw general conclusions about scientific practice from what he has discovered about the evolution of materials science. Further highlights include: What is a scientific discipline? How do disciplines merge and differentiate? Can a discipline also be interdisciplinary? Is materials science a real discipline? In other words, this book is not just for reading and reference, but exists to stimulate thought and provoke discussion as well.
2001, hardcover, 568 pages.
Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Emergence of Disciplines
3. Precursors of Materials Science
4. The Virtues of Subsidiarity
5. The Escape from Handwaving
6. Characterization
7. Functional Materials
8. The Polymer Revolution
9. Craft Turned into Science
10. Materials in Extreme States
11. Materials Chemistry and Biomimetics
12. Computer Simulation
13. The Management of Data
14. The Institutions and Literature of Materials Science
15. Epilogue
Name Index
Subject Index
Recent Recognition
The Luigi Losana Gold Medal
Professor Robert Cahn has been awarded
the latest Luigi Losana Gold Medal. Established in 1950 to honor
the memory of the renowned Italian metallurgist, the medal is
presented to an international researcher as recognition for distinguished
contributions to the advancement of metals science and technology.
Acta Materialia Gold Medal for 2002
Professor Cahn has also been awarded
the Acta Materialia Gold Medal for 2002
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