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Also Known As Sir Frederick Charles Frank
Born March 6, 1911 • Durban • South Africa
Died April 5, 1998 (aged 87) • Bristol • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1994)
Subjects Of Study Frank-Read mechanism • muon-catalyzed fusion • muonic molecule • screw dislocation
Sir William Bragg
Sir William Bragg
British physicist
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
British physicist
Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Bragg, Sir Lawrence
Sir Lawrence Bragg
British physicist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
P.A.M. Dirac
P.A.M. Dirac
English physicist
Peierls, Sir Rudolf Ernst; Dirac, P.A.M.; Pauli, Wolfgang
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls
British physicist
Patrick Blackett
British physicist
Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist
Sir Horace Lamb.
Sir Horace Lamb
English mathematician
Sydney Chapman
British mathematician and physicist
J.J. Thomson
J.J. Thomson
British physicist
Lord Rayleigh, engraving by R. Cottot.
Lord Rayleigh
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James Chadwick
James Chadwick
British physicist
Airy, c. 1877
Sir George Biddell Airy
British astronomer
Sir Martin Ryle.
Sir Martin Ryle
British astronomer
Joule, James Prescott
James Prescott Joule
English physicist
Charles Wheatstone.
Sir Charles Wheatstone
British physicist
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer

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