Frank Nabarro
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Frank Reginald Nunes Nabarro MBE OMS FRS[1] (7 March 1916 – 20 July 2006) was an English-born South African physicist and one of the pioneers of solid-state physics, which underpins much of 21st-century technology.
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Born | Frank Reginald Nunes Nabarro (1916-03-07)7 March 1916 |
Died | 20 July 2006(2006-07-20) (aged 90) |
Known for | Peierls–Nabarro stress Nabarro–Herring creep |
Awards | Beilby Medal and Prize (1949) Fellow of the Royal Society (1971) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Solid-state physics |
Institutions | University of Birmingham University of Bristol University of the Witwatersrand |
Academic advisors | Nevill Francis Mott |
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Nabarro was a research fellow in physics at the University of Bristol in the late 1940s