Egon Orowan
Egon Orowan · Science & Medicine
Physicist who helped develop the theory of crystal dislocations and applied it to plate tectonics
1902, Budapest, Hungary — 1989, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Hungary · Germany · United Kingdom · United States
Egon Orowan is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist who helped develop the theory of crystal dislocations and applied it to plate tectonics
Orowan was a physicist who, independently with Taylor and Polanyi in 1934, developed the theory of dislocations, explaining how crystals deform and why metals are far weaker than perfect atomic bonding predicts. He later applied mechanics to geophysics and plate tectonics. He was of Jewish descent on his father's side, born in Budapest.
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Physicist who helped develop the theory of crystal dislocations and applied it to plate tectonics
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science
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