Frederick Charles Frank
Frederick Charles Frank , called Charles Frank (born March 6, 1911 in Durban , † April 5, 1998 ) was a British theoretical physicist.
Frank came to England with his parents shortly after he was born . He studied chemistry from 1929 at Oxford University (Lincoln College), where he earned his bachelor's degrees (BA 1932, B. Sc. 1933) and received his doctorate at the Oxford Engineering Science Laboratory with a thesis on dielectric losses in organic materials. From 1936 to 1938 he was a post-doctoral student in Berlin with Peter Debye . On his return he went to Cambridge to do colloid research with Eric Keightley Rideal (1890–1974). During the war he worked for the Department of Aviation in the scientific intelligence department headed by his friend Reginald Victor Jones . After the war he was at Bristol University , where he became a reader in 1951 and a professor in 1954 . From 1969 he was director of the HH Wills Physics Laboratory. In 1976 he retired, but remained scientifically active.
From his time at Oxford in the 1930s, he is known for work on protein structure. After the war he worked on solid state physics and is known for his work on dislocations in crystals and their role in crystal growth and liquid crystals . He also dealt with the mechanics of polymers and geophysics. In 1947 he was the first to propose muon-catalyzed fusion , roughly at the same time as Andrei Sakharov , whose work was initially secret.
In 1954 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society , whose Royal Medal he received in 1979 and whose Copley Medal he received in 1994. In 1977 he was ennobled. In 1981 he received the Gregori Aminoff Prize , in 1982 the Faraday Medal (IOP) and in 1987 the Von Hippel Award . Also in 1987, Frank was elected to the National Academy of Sciences .
He was involved in the Farm Hall wiretapping and published the wiretapping protocols in 1993 ( Operation Epsilon - The Farm Hall Transcripts , University of California Press / Institute of Physics).
Web links
- Frank, Sir Frederick Charles, 1911-1998. Knight. Physicist. In: Guide to the manuscript papers of British scientists: F. National Cataloging Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists, archived from the original on October 28, 2009 (English).
Individual evidence
- ^ Frank Hypothetical alternative energy sources for the second meson events , Nature, Volume 160, 1947, pp. 525-527
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frank, Frederick Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Frank, Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Durban |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 5, 1998 |