1. L.H. Schwartz, Materials Research Laboratories: Reviewing the First Twenty-Five Years in Advancing Materials Research (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1987), pp. 35–48.
2. L.M. Schwartz, “The Materials Research Center: Transition from Multidisciplinarity to Interdisciplinarity” this paper was part of a locally published anthology of the history of Northwestern University’s Technological Institute from 1970 to 2000.
3. Materials and Man’s Needs: Materials Science and Engineering, Summary Report of the Committee on the Survey of Materials Science and Engineering (Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1974), http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10435.html . Referred to herein as COSMAT.
4. Materials and Man’s Needs: Materials Science and Engineering—Volume III, The Institutional Framework for Materials Science and Engineering, Supplementary Report of the Committee on the Survey of Materials Science and Engineering (Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1975), http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10438.html . This third volume of the appendices to COSMAT will be referred to as COSMAT, Vol. III.
5. Materials Science and Engineering for the 1990’s: Maintaining Competitiveness in the Age of Materials (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1989), http://www.nap.edu/catalog/758.html . Drafted by the Committee on MSE, this report will be referred to herein as the COMSE report.