Frederick Charles Frank

Date of Birth	06-March-1911
Place of Birth	Durban (South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal)
Nationality	United Kingdom
Also know as	Charles Frank
Profession	Physicist
Sir Frederick Charles Frank FRS, known as Sir Charles Frank, was a British theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on crystal dislocations, including 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.

Awards by Frederick Charles Frank

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Copley Medal	(In recognition of his fundamental contribution to the theory of crystal morphology, in particular to the source of dislocations and their consequences in interfaces and crystal growth; to fundamental understanding of liquid crystals and the concept of disclination; and to the extension of crystallinity concepts to aperiodic crystals. He has also contributed through a variety of remarkable insights into a great number of physical problems.)