David Tabor

David Tabor
Born	October 23, 1913(1913-10-23)
Died	November 26, 2005(2005-11-26) (aged 92)
Institutions	University of Cambridge
Notable awards	Fellow of the Royal Society

David Tabor (23 October 1913 - 26 November 2005)^[1] 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, then Emeritus professor. He was head of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, Cavendish Laboratory, 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".

References

1. ^ Field, J. (2008). "David Tabor. 23 October 1913 -- 26 November 2005". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 54: 425. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2007.0031.  edit

External links

• Who's Who 2005

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Name	Tabor, David
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Date of birth	23 October 1913
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Date of death	26 November 2005
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