Prof. Shuji Nakamura, UCSB Materials Department
Co-winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on blue light LEDs and semiconductor lasers.
"The branch of science that deals with the structure, properties, and processing of materials, esp. with regard to their potential usefulness." -Oxford English Dictionary
"Materials science may be defined as the relationship of the properties of an object to its chemical composition and structure." - Materials Science & Engineering, Giles F. Carter and Donald E. Paul, 1991