Person Tabor; David (1913 - 2005) Tabor David 1913 - 2005 Male 23/10/1913 19131023 26/11/2005 20051126

Education; Regent Street Polytechnic Secondary School; scholarship to study physics at Royal College of Science in South Kensington (now Imperial College), remaining there to do a Ph.D for 'The area of caontact between stationary and moving surfaces' (1939) Career: Experimental physicist largely responsible for creating the modern science of tribology, which concerns the molecular causes of friction and wear betweeen solids. During his research at the Royal College of Science was invited by Australian born physicist F P Bowden to join him at Cambridge, where he worked until Bowden's death in 1968. Worked in Australia for the government's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, returning to Cambridge in 1946. Established a research group on the Physics and Chemistry of Surfaces in Cambridge's Department of Physical Chemistry, of which Tabor became head on Bowden's death, supervising its move to the Cavendish Laboratory. Elected Fellow of Gonville and Caius College (1957). Officially retired in 1981, but kept an office in the Cavendish Laboratory, where he continued to work. Married Hanna Stillschweig in 1943. Had two sons. Medals and prizes: Royal Medal 1992 Fellow 21/03/1963 49 References: 'Address of the President, Sir Michael Atiyah, OM, Given at the Anniversary Meeting on 30 November 1992' in NR 1993 vol 47 pp 109-118 N N Greenwood and J A Spink, 'An antipodean laboratory of remarkable distinction' in NR 2002 vol 57 pp 85-105 Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of the Fellows of the Royal Society Vol 54, 2008, pp425-460 Obituary in the 'Daily Telegraph' (12/01/2006) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 'The Friction and Lubricationof Solids', written with F P Bowden and published in two volumes in 1950 and 1964 23 Oct 1913 - 26 Nov 2005 NA1072 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 49cde5eb-1f77-48b3-8fc4-18c22151de6a