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Biographies
R. W. Cahn, “Georgius Agricola,” Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed. (1974).
R. W. Cahn, “Walter Rosenhain,” Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1975) Vol. 11.
R. W. Cahn, “Cyril Stanley Smith,” New Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Colin Matthews (2004).
Topical articles
R. W. Cahn, “Intermetallic Compounds: History and Prospects,” Metals, Mater. Proc. (India) 1 (1989) 1.
R. W. Cahn, “Load-Bearing Ordered Intermetallic Compounds—A Historical View,” MRS Bull. 16(5) (1991) 18.
R. W. Cahn, Ordered Intermetallic Compounds, 1916–1990, in “Frontiers of Materials Research,” edited by M. Kong and L. Huang (North Holland, Amsterdam, 1991) Vol. 1, p. 57.
R. W. Cahn, “The Uses of Intermetallics in Engineering Design,” Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias, Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales (Madrid) 90(2) (1996) 3.
R. W. Cahn, Historical Perspective on the Development of Aluminides, in “Intl. Symp. on Nickel and Iron Aluminides: Processing, Properties, and Applications,” edited by S. C. Deevi et al. (ASM Intl., 1997) p. 3.
R. W. Cahn, “Intermetallics: New Physics,” Contemp. Phys. 42(6) (2001) 365.
R. W. Cahn, “Case-Histories of Innovations,” Nature 225 (1970) 693.
R. W. Cahn, “Alloy Design: A Historical Perspective,” in Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (1980) p. 225.
R. W. Cahn, “The Use of Metallic Single Crystals in Metals Research: A Concise History,” Z. Metallkde 90 (1999) 860.
R. W. Cahn, Historical Overview, in “Multi-scale Phenomena in Plasticity: from Experiment to Phenomenology, Modelling and Materials Engineering,” edited by J. Lépinous et al. (NATO ASI Series, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2000) p. 7.
Philosophical views of the materials science and engineering discipline
R. W. Cahn, “What is Materials Science?” Discovery (July, 1965).
R. W. Cahn, “What Use is Metallurgical Research?” J. Royal Soc. Arts (London) 123 (1975) 365.
R. W. Cahn, “The Historical Development of Physical Metallurgy,” supplement to R.F. Mehl's article of the same title, in “Physical Metallurgy,” 3rd ed., edited by R.W. Cahn and P. Haasen (North-Holland Publishing Co. Amsterdam, 1983) p. 27.
R. W. Cahn, Solid State Physics and Metallurgy, in “Solid State Science: Past, Present, and Predicted,” edited by D. Weaire and C. G. Windsor (Adam Hilger, Bristol, 1987) p. 79.
R. W. Cahn, “Political Science,” MRS Bull. 16(1) (1991) 72.
R. W. Cahn, “Trends in Physical Metallurgy,” in “Advances in Physical Metallurgy,” edited by S. Banerjee and R. V. Ramanujan (Gordon and Breach, New York, 1996) p. 1.
R. W. Cahn, “Challenge, Response, and Serendipity in the Design of Materials,” Bull. Mater. Sci. India 17 (1994) 1369.
R. W. Cahn, “Materials Science: The Big Picture,” Science and Public Affairs (Summer, 1996) p. 52.
R. W. Cahn, “The History of Physical Metallurgy and of Materials Science,” Acta Metall. Sinica 33 (1997) 157.
R. W. Cahn, “Materials Science: Parepistemes Rampant,” MRS Bull. 24(9) (1999) 3.
R. W. Cahn, “The Science of Things: Unanswered Scientific Questions and Unquestioned Scientific Answers in Materials Research and Development,” MRS Bull. 25(9) (2000) 59.
M. F. Flemings and R. W. Cahn, “Organization and Trends in MSE Education in the U.S. and Europe,” Acta Materialia 48 (2000) 371.
R. W. Cahn, “The Coming of Materials Science” (Pergamon/Elsevier, Oxford, 2001) p. 568.
R. W. Cahn, Transition from Metallurgy to Materials Science, in “Materials Science and Engineering: Its Nucleation and Growth,” edited by M. McLean (Inst. of Materials, London, 2002) p. 73.
R. W. Cahn, Freedom and Fashion in Materials Science and Engineering, in “Frontiers of Materials Science and Engineering” (SADHANA, India, 2003) (in press).
R. W. Cahn, “Metallurgists and Materials Scientists: Scope for Scepticism?” MRS Bull. 28 (2003) (in press).
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Westbrook, J.H. R. W. Cahn—Historian. Journal of Materials Science 39, 3863–3864 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JMSC.0000031466.37947.7f
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