David Tabor (physicist)

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David Tabor
Born(1913-10-23)23 October 1913
London, England
Died26 November 2005(2005-11-26) (aged 92)
Cambridge, England
Alma materImperial College London
University of Cambridge (Ph.D, 1939)
Known forKey figure in the birth of Tribology
Surface forces apparatus
Tabor parameter
SpouseHannalene Stillschweig
AwardsTribology Gold Medal (1972)
Guthrie Medal (1975)
Royal Medal (1992)
Fellow of the Royal Society
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Doctoral studentsKevin Kendall
Alan D. Roberts
Jacob Israelachvili
Andrew Briggs

David Tabor (né Tabrisky), FRS (23 October 1913 – 26 November 2005)[1] was a British physicist who was an early pioneer of tribology, the study of frictional interaction between surfaces, and well known for his influential undergraduate textbook "Gases, Liquids and Solids".[2]

  1. ^ Field, J. (2008). "David Tabor. 23 October 1913 -- 26 November 2005". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 54: 425–459. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2007.0031.
  2. ^ Tabor, D. (1991). Gases, Liquids and Solids: And Other States of Matter (3 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-40667-3.