David Tabor
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David Tabor (23 October 1913 - 23 October 2005) was a British physicist who coined the word tribology for the study of frictional interaction between surfaces.
He was Professor of Physics in the University of Cambridge, 1973-81, then Emeritus professor. He was head of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, Cavendish Laboratory, 1969-81 and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, from 1957.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1963. He was the first recipient of the Gold Medal of Tribology from the Institution of Engineers, 1972. He also received the Guthrie Medal of the Institute of Physics, 1975.
He described his recreation as "Judaica".
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- Who's Who 2005
- Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Britain
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