Nicolás Cabrera (physicist)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Cabrera and the second or maternal family name is Sánchez.

Nicolás Cabrera Sánchez (1913–1989), was a Spanish physicist and professor of the Autonomous University of Madrid, who did important work on the theories of crystals and the oxidisation of metals. He is known for the development of the Burton–Cabrera–Frank theory for crystal growth. He spent many years in exile from Spain during the Francoist State.

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