David Tabor
David Tabor · Science & Medicine
Physicist; founder of modern tribology (friction and adhesion)
1913, London, England — 2005, Cambridge, England
United Kingdom
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David Tabor (born Tabrisky) was a British physicist regarded as a founder of modern tribology — the science of friction, adhesion and lubrication — and co-author of The Friction and Lubrication of Solids. Working at Cambridge, he clarified how surfaces actually touch and slide at the microscopic level. Born in London to a Lithuanian Jewish family, he was for decades a pillar of the Cambridge Jewish community.
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Physicist; founder of modern tribology (friction and adhesion)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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