Nicolás Cabrera (physicist)

Nicolás Cabrera (1913–1989), was a Spanish physicist who did important work on the theories of crystal growth and the 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 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.
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