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Sir Charles Frank (born March 6, 1911, Durban, South Africa—died April 5, 1998, Bristol, England) was an English physicist known for his work in the study of crystals. Though born in South Africa, Frank was raised in his parents’ native England, to which they returned only a few months after his birth. Frank received a scholarship to Lincoln College, Oxford, from which he graduated with degrees in chemistry (B.A., 1932; B.Sc., 1933). He then researched...