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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: coming of materials science
  name:
    name part: Cahn, R. W. (Robert W.)
    name part: 1924-2007
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    place:
      place term: Amsterdam
    publisher: New York
    publisher: Pergamon
    date issued: 2001
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 568 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. The Emergence of Disciplines -- Ch. 3. Precursors of Materials Science -- Ch. 4. The Virtues of Subsidiarity -- Ch. 5. The Escape from Handwaving -- Ch. 6. Characterization -- Ch. 7. Functional Materials -- Ch. 8. The Polymer Revolution -- Ch. 9. Craft Turned into Science -- Ch. 10. Materials in Extreme States -- Ch. 11. Materials Chemistry and Biomimetics -- Ch. 12. Computer Simulation -- Ch. 13. The Management of Data -- Ch. 14. The Institutions and Literature of Materials Science -- Ch. 15. Epilogue.
  note: by Robert W. Cahn.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
  note: digitized 2025. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Materials science
  subject:
    topic: Science des matériaux
  subject:
    topic: Materials science
  subject:
    topic: Geschichte
  subject:
    topic: Werkstoffkunde
  subject:
    topic: Materialen
  subject:
    topic: Materiaalkunde
  subject:
    topic: Vaste stoffen
  subject:
    topic: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
    topic: Material Science
  subject:
    topic: Materials science.
  classification: TA403 .C225 2001
  classification: 620.1/1
  classification: 33.61
  classification: 51.00
  classification: UB 2460
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    identifier: (DLC) 00065565
    identifier: (OCoLC)45493085
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    title info:
      title: Coming of materials science
    name:
      name part: Cahn, R.W. (Robert W.), 1924-
    origin info:
      publisher: Amsterdam : New York : Pergamon, 2001
      edition: 1st ed.
    identifier: (DLC) 00065565
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      title: Pergamon materials series ; v. 5
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  identifier: 1281071986
  identifier: 9781281071989
  identifier: 00065565
  identifier: 128567:119607 Elsevier Science & Technology
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  record info:
    record content source: OCLCE
    record creation date: 250120
    record change date: 20260327181133.2
    record identifier: in00005774478
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng