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 academe 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, and also examine the evolution of a number of
neighbouring 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, 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
issues that the book 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? A large range of themes is presented in the book and
readers are invited to interact with the author if they reach
alternative conclusions. This book is not just for reading and
reference, but exists to stimulate thought and provoke discussion
as well.
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