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Yoffe, Abraham David (1919 - ) |
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| Physicist | |
| Born: 26 November 1919 Jerusalem, Palestine | |
| Abraham David Yoffe worked for the CSIR Lubricants and Bearings Section from 1941-45. He spent most of the remainder of his career at the University of Cambridge. |
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| Born Jerusalem, Palestine, 26 November 1919. Educated Universities of Melbourne (BSc 1940, MSc 1941) and Cambridge (PhD 1948, ScD 1961). CSIR Lubricants and Bearings Section 1941-45, research fellow in physical chemistry, University of Cambridge 1948-50, 1954-56; senior scientist, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 1951-54; assistant director of research, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge 1956-68; reader in physics 1968-. | |
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