Nicolás Cabrera (physicist)
Nicolás Cabrera (1913–1989), was a Spanish
oxidisation of metals. He is known for the development of the Burton–Cabrera–Frank theory for crystal growth, with Keith Burton and Charles Frank
.
He was the son of another famous Spanish physicist
Francoist State. He was Professor of the Department of physics in the University of Virginia, where he worked from 1952. He became known for his interests in engineering and material science. He founded the physics department and was a professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), from 1971. He is considered to have given an impulse to the study of physics in Spain from the time of his return. For a time Javier Solana
, whom he met at the University of Virginia, was his assistant in Madrid. Solana has described him as being a brilliant man but badly organized. The Nicolás Cabrera Institute, founded in 1989 in the UAM, is named after him.
External links
- "Remembering Cabrera". Archived from the original on June 24, 2004.
- "Journal of Physics". Archived from the original on April 15, 2013.
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