David Tabor

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David Tabor
Born(1913-10-23)23 October 1913
London, England
Died26 November 2005(2005-11-26) (aged 92)
Cambridge, England
Alma mater Imperial College London
University of Cambridge (Ph.D, 1939)
Known forKey figure in the birth of Tribology
Surface forces apparatus
Tabor parameter
SpouseHannalene Stillschweig
Awards Tribology Gold Medal (1972)
Guthrie Medal (1975)
Royal Medal (1992)
Fellow of the Royal Society
Scientific career
Fields Physics
Institutions University of Cambridge
Doctoral students Kevin Kendall
Alan D. Roberts
Jacob Israelachvili
Andrew Briggs

David Tabor (né Tabrisky), FRS (23 October 1913 – 26 November 2005) [1] was a British physicist who was an early pioneer of tribology, the study of frictional interaction between surfaces, and well known for his influential undergraduate textbook "Gases, Liquids and Solids". [2]

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Early life and education

David Tabrisky was the sixth of seven children of Russian Jewish parents Charles (born "Ezekiel") Tabrisky and Rebecca (née Weinstein), who had emigrated to the United Kingdom and lived at Notting Hill Gate. His father had been a non-commissioned officer in, and armourer to, the Russian Imperial Army, and had run a business as a gunsmith and metalworker. On coming to England, he established a small metalworking business specialising in customised fittings and designs. Charles Tabrisky changed the family's surname to "Tabor" in the early 1920s. Tabor was educated at the Portobello Road Primary School, Regent Street Polytechnic Secondary School, and Imperial College London (to which he won a scholarship), then went to Cambridge to undertake research in the Department of Chemistry. [3] [4] [5]

Academic career

In 1957, Tabor was elected a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. In 1964, the University of Cambridge appointed him Reader in Physics. From 1969 to 1981, he served as Head of Physics and Chemistry of Solids at the Cavendish Laboratory. In 1973, he was promoted to Professor of Physics. He was made Professor Emeritus when he retired in 1981. [6] Much of Tabor's tribology research was performed alongside Frank Philip Bowden, [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] with whom he published his popular book 'The Friction and Lubrication of Solids'. [12]

Honours

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1963. He was awarded the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers International Award in 1965. [13] In 1968 he was awarded the A. A. Griffith Medal and Prize. He was the first recipient of the Tribology Gold Medal, which is awarded by the Tribology Trust and administered by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, in 1972. [14] He was awarded the Mayo D. Hersey award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1974. [15] He also received the Guthrie Medal of the Institute of Physics, 1975 and the Royal Society's Royal Medal, one of their three highest awards, 1992. [16]

The David Tabor Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics was named in his honour. [17]

Personal life

In 1943, Tabor married Hanna Stillschweig, who survived him with their two sons. [18]

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References

  1. ↑ Field, J. (2008). "David Tabor. 23 October 1913 -- 26 November 2005". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 54: 425–459. doi: 10.1098/rsbm.2007.0031 .
  2. ↑ Tabor, D. (1991). Gases, Liquids and Solids: And Other States of Matter (3 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-521-40667-3.
  3. ↑ National Academy of Engineering of the United States of America- Memorial Tributes, vol. 12, National Academies Press, 2008, p. 299
  4. ↑ "Prof David Tabor".
  5. ↑ Biographical Memoirs of the Fellows of the Royal Society, vol. 54, pp. 425-429, "David Tabor, 23 October 1913- 26 November 2005", John Field, 2008 URL= https://www.smf.phy.cam.ac.uk/files/574FrictFieldBMFRS54.pdf
  6. ↑ 'TABOR, Prof. David', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 21 May 2017
  7. ↑ Bowden, Frank Philip; Tabor, David (1939). "The area of contact between stationary and moving surfaces". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 169 (938): 391–413. doi: 10.1098/rspa.1939.0005 .
  8. ↑ Bowden, F. P.; Tabor, D. (1942). "Mechanism of Metallic Friction". Nature. 150 (3798): 197–199. Bibcode:1942Natur.150..197B. doi:10.1038/150197a0. ISSN   1476-4687. S2CID   4095803.
  9. ↑ Bowden, F. P.; Moore, A. J. W.; Tabor, D. (1943). "The Ploughing and Adhesion of Sliding Metals". Journal of Applied Physics. 14 (2): 80–91. Bibcode:1943JAP....14...80B. doi:10.1063/1.1714954. ISSN   0021-8979.
  10. ↑ Bowden, F. P.; Gregory, J. N.; Tabor, D. (1945). "Lubrication of Metal Surfaces by Fatty Acids". Nature. 156 (3952): 97–101. Bibcode:1945Natur.156...97B. doi:10.1038/156097a0. ISSN   1476-4687. S2CID   4116167.
  11. ↑ Bowden, F P; Tabor, D (1966). "Friction, lubrication and wear: a survey of work during the last decade". British Journal of Applied Physics. 17 (12): 1521–1544. doi:10.1088/0508-3443/17/12/301. ISSN   0508-3443.
  12. ↑ Bowden, F. P.; Tabor, D. (2001). The Friction and Lubrication of Solids. Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-850777-2.
  13. ↑ "International Award | STLE". www.stle.org. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  14. ↑ "IMechE Tribology Gold Medal Laureates | Institution of Mechanical Engineers". www.imeche.org. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  15. ↑ "Mayo D. Hersey Award". www.asme.org. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  16. ↑ Field, John (May 2006). "Obituary: David Tabor". Physics Today. 59 (5): 72–73. Bibcode:2006PhT....59e..72F. doi: 10.1063/1.2216974 .
  17. ↑ "David Tabor Medal and Prize". Institute of Physics. Archived from the original on 2 July 2019. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  18. ↑ "Prof David Tabor".
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