Materials Societies ab initio

In Japan, the Japan Federation of Materials acts as an umbrella organisation for 18 Japanese materials societies, and very recently, in 2000, it has co-sponsored a new English-language Japanese journal. Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, 

Of course, many other professional societies have played their part in this successful reaching out between specialisms. As outlined above, the big metallurgical societies have broadened resolutely, and the American Physical Society and American Chemical Society are now much more hospitable to their members in industry than they apparently were 30 years ago. 

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