David Tabor (physicist)

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David Tabor
Born
David Tabrisky

(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 forTabor parameter
SpouseHannalene Stillschweig
AwardsTribology Gold Medal (1972)
Guthrie Medal (1975)
Royal Medal (1992)
Fellow of the Royal Society
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Contact mechanics
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Doctoral studentsKevin Kendall
Alan D. Roberts
Jacob Israelachvili
Andrew Briggs

David Tabor (né Tabrisky), FRS (23 October 1913 – 26 November 2005) 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.

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