Thornton Read References Thornton Read American physicist Ask Anything Homework Help Written by The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them. The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica Britannica AI Ask Anything Learn about this topic in these articles: Sir Charles Frank…1950 Frank and American physicist Thornton Read simultaneously discovered what came to be known as the Frank-Read mechanism for generating dislocations in a crystal. Read More…1950 Frank and American physicist Thornton Read simultaneously discovered what came to be known as the Frank-Read mechanism for generating dislocations in a crystal. Read More