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Sir Charles Frank

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Also known as: Sir Frederick Charles Frank
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In full:
Sir Frederick Charles Frank
Born:
March 6, 1911, Durban, South Africa
Died:
April 5, 1998, Bristol, England (aged 87)
Awards And Honors:
Copley Medal (1994)
Subjects Of Study:
Frank-Read mechanism
muon-catalyzed fusion
muonic molecule
screw dislocation
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Sir Charles Frank (born March 6, 1911, Durban, South Africa—died April 5, 1998, Bristol, England) English physicist known for his work in the study of crystals. Though born in South Africa, Frank was raised in his parents’ native England, to which they returned only a few months after his birth. Frank received a scholarship to Lincoln College, Oxford, from which he graduated with degrees in chemistry (B.A., 1932; B.Sc., 1933). He then researched dielectrics at Oxford’s engineering laboratory, receiving a doctorate in 1937. From 1936 to 1938 Frank worked with Dutch physicist Peter Debye at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of ...(100 of 549 words)

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