JOM, August 1st, 2000
Metals and the Royal Society. By D.R.F. West and J.E. Harris. ISBN 1861250282.Lon, IOM Communications Ltd. 1999.Hardcover. 787 pages. $80.
When Walter Rosenhain, on the eve of the First World War, published his revolutionary book, An Introduction to Physical Metallurgy, he defined his new field of metallurgy as "a branch which concerns itself with the nature, properties and behavior of metals and of alloys as such, as distinct from the far older branch of metallurgy which deals with the reduction of metals from their ores." He went on to claim that "thus defined and understood the scope of ph...
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