... 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 Science and Metallurgy, have ... breadth of outlook that caused materials science education, which is centred on the pursuit of breadth, to begin in that part of the world. From 1959, then, the department of materials science ... 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,...