Frederick Charles Frank, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Frederick Charles Frank

British physicist

Date of Birth: 06-Mar-1911

Place of Birth: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Date of Death: 05-Apr-1998

Profession: engineer, physicist, university teacher

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Sir Frederick Charles Frank, OBE, FRS (6 March 1911 – 5 April 1998), known as Sir Charles Frank, was a British theoretical physicist.
He is best known for his work on crystal dislocations, including (with Thornton Read) the idea of the Frank–Read source of dislocations.
He also proposed the cyclol reaction in the mid-1930s, and made many other contributions to solid-state physics, geophysics, and the theory of liquid crystals.