text: The Goldsmiths' Professorship of Materials Science is a professorship in the University of Cambridge, associated with the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.
  The professorship was established by grace of 20 November 1931 as the Goldsmiths Professorship of Metallurgy to replace the Goldsmiths Readership in Metallurgy. A further gift of £12,500 was received from the Goldsmiths Company in 1933.  It was retitled the Goldsmiths Professorship of Materials Science by grace 4 of 19 June 1991.