Showing revision 1Materials Science is the study of materials that engineers
are interested in working with. The actual subject matter
has a large degree of overlap with solid chemistry and
applied physics, and also the science of geology, plus of
course the engineering diciplines themselves. The existence
of materials science as a separate discipline is more a
mater of history than anything inherent in the subject itself
(much like, say, the split between anthropology and sociology):
when engineers got interested in things besides metal,
the metallurgists became "materials scientists".