Frederick Charles Frank

Frederick Charles Frank, named Charles Frank ( born March 6, 1911 in Durban, † 5 April 1988) was a British theoretical physicist.

Frank came with his parents shortly after his birth in England. He studied chemistry in 1929 at the University of Oxford ( Lincoln College), where he earned his bachelor's degrees (BA in 1932, B. Sc., 1933) and received his doctorate at Oxford Engineering Science Laboratory with a thesis on dielectric losses in organic materials. From 1936 to 1938 he was a post - doctoral researcher in Berlin with Peter Debye. On his return he went to Cambridge in the colloid research at EK Rideal. During the war he worked for the Air Ministry in the Department of scientific enlightenment, which led his friend Reginald Victor Jones. After the war he was at the University of Bristol, where he was Reader in 1951 and Professor in 1954. From 1969 he was director of the HH Wills Physics Laboratory. In 1976 he retired, but remained scientifically active.

He is known for work on the protein structure from his time at Oxford in the 1930s. After the war he worked on solid state physics and is known for work on dislocations in crystals and their role in the crystal growth and liquid crystals. He also dealt with the mechanics of polymers and geophysics. In 1947, he hit the first the myon -catalyzed fusion before, about the same time as Andrei Sakharov, but whose work was initially secret.

In 1954 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Medal in 1979 and its Copley Medal he received in 1994. In 1977 he was knighted. In 1981 he was awarded the Gregori Aminoff Prize -, 1982, the Faraday Medal ( IOP), 1987 Von Hippel Award.

He was involved in the Farm Hall interceptions and gave 1993, the wiretap transcripts out (Operation Epsilon - The Farm Hall Transcripts, University of California Press / Institute of Physics ).