... source of information recent and ancient, and its helpful staff, together with those of the Whipple Library of the History and Philosophy of Science and the Library of the Dcpartmcnt of Materials ... sloughed off to another department. Kingery, a chemist by background, did his doctoral research 4 The Coming of Materials Science In spite of its graduate status, the new department did offer ... and then as professor of materials science at the University of Sussex, 1965-1981. But before any of this came about, the Department of Physical Metallurgy at the University of Birmingham,...