TY - BOOK ID - 88204233 TI - The coming of materials science PY - 2001 VL - 5 SN - 9780080529424 0080529429 9780080426792 0080426794 1281071986 9781281071989 9786611071981 PB - Amsterdam: Pergamon, DB - UniCat KW - Materials sciences KW - History KW - Materials science. KW - Material science KW - Physical sciences UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:88204233 AB - 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 referen ER -