Frank Nabarro
Frank Nabarro · Science & Medicine
Physicist; theory of dislocations and crystal plasticity
1916, London, England, United Kingdom — 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa
United Kingdom · South Africa
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Frank Reginald Nunes Nabarro, of Sephardic Jewish descent, was a British-South African physicist and a founder of the modern theory of crystal dislocations, which explains how metals deform and strengthen. The Peierls-Nabarro force and Herring-Nabarro creep bear his name. He spent much of his career building physics at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
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Physicist; theory of dislocations and crystal plasticity
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