The Birth of Acta Metallurgica

By 1967, the flood of short papers had become so great that a separate journal, Scripta Metallurgica, was hived off. These Latin titles were intended to symbolise the international character of the journal. Chalmers edited the journal until 1974, when Michael Ashby took over the reins which he held until 1995 at that point a more collegiate editorial structure was instituted. In 1990, the adjective metalliirgica was supplemented by materialia, and in 1996 the journals simply became Acta materialia and Scripta materialia (some classicist seems to have advised the board of governors, at a late stage, that lower case letters are de rigueur in Latin ) 

In recent years, under the leadership of a coordinating editor, Subra Suresh, Acta Materialia and its letter journal have sought energetically to broaden the remit of the 

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