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The right stuff for the future

Nature volume 339, pages 436–437 (1989)Cite this article

Encyclopedia of Materials Science and Engineering: Supplementary Volume 1.

Edited by Robert W. Cahn. Pergamon, UK/ MIT Press, USA: 1988/1989. Pp. 653. £160, $295.

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  1. John Wood: but will shortly take up a post as Cripps Professor of Materials Engineering at the University of Nottingham.

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