Frank Nabarro

Frank Reginald Nunes Nabarro MBE OMS (7 March 1916 - 20 July 2006 in London, England) was an English-born South African physicist and one of the pioneers of solid-state physics, which underpins much of 21st century technology. Photograph of Frank Nabarro Born into a Sephardi Jewish family, he studied at Nottingham High School, then at New College, Oxford where he obtained a first-class honours degree in physics in 1937 and another in mathematics ... more

Frank Reginald Nunes Nabarro MBE OMS (7 March 1916 - 20 July 2006 in London, England) was an English-born South African physicist and one of the pioneers of solid-state physics, which underpins much of 21st century technology. Photograph of Frank Nabarro Born into a Sephardi Jewish family, he studied at Nottingham High School, then at New College, Oxford where he obtained a first-class honours degree in physics in 1937 and another in mathematics in 1938. At the University of Bristol his work under Professor Nevill Francis Mott, a future Nobel Laureate in physics, earned him the Oxford degree of B.Sc. (then equivalent to an M.Sc. elsewhere). Then followed an M.A. in 1945. Within a few years he had risen to a leading role in the field of crystal lattice dislocations and plasticity. In this period he wrote a number of seminal papers which are still cited. Later papers and the books that he published cemented his dominance of the field. (See also Egon Orowan) At the outbreak of World War... less