FRANK_FREDERICK_CHARLES_Vol2_v2
Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of
SIR FREDERICK CHARLES FRANK Kt, OBE, FRS
(b.1911)
Compiled by Timothy E. Powell and Peter Harper
Sections G -
K
Bibliography
1989
Volume Il
Index of Correspondents and Organisations
All rights reserved
Deposited in Bristol University Library
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SECTION G
CONSULTANCIES
G.1-G.130
This section contains material relating to Frank's work for British
and overseas commercial organisations only.
He also acted as consultant for
a number of governmental agencies and departments.
Material of this nature
is
to
be found in Section F.
BRITISH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (BAC)
BRITISH RAILWAYS (BR)
DE BEERS
GENERAL ELECTRIC (GE)
IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES (ICI)
Pees
eo
.24-6.99
.100-G.113
.114
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (IBM)
7 LLG. 122
PCI DISPLAYS LTD
J.A. RADLEY (LABORATORIES) LTD
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BRITISH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (BAC)
1964
re
Weapons
Correspondence
Division.
1964 is annotated by Frank
"Answered, accepting but asking for further copy of original
letter, 24 July 1964".
BAC'’s letter of
consultancy
Guided
8 May
offer
in
of
BRITISH RAILWAYS (BR)
1949-51
as
to
serve
invited
"an independent
the recommendation of
scientific
Frank was
adviser" to the Water Treatment Committee, 23 September 1949,
on
Committee was
established to study the problems "in the provision and use of
softened water" used in steam locomotive boilers.
It first met
on 2 December 1949 and held a further thirteen meetings before
issuing its report in February 1951.
Jones.
This
R.V.
of
the
The
the
and
costs
problems
Committee
considered
costs
associated with the various systems of softening the water fed
to locomotives to reduce scaling (with its deleterious effect
on
allowing for
regional diversity (due to differing water hardnesses and to
the pre-nationalisation practices of
the four great railway
companies) the Committee recommended "that further extensions
of
by
internal treatment on
the locomotive" rather than by large-
scale water treatment plants.
boiler maintenance).
treatment
possible
should
While
water
made
far
be
as
as
a
and
&c",
become
letter
Frank’s
consultant
The material, predominantly committee papers and background
information, is arranged in a chronological sequence.
"Questions for Enginemen,
Railway's Handbook for Enginemen, December 1931.
London Midland and Scottish
Sent to Frank
of
to
Frank's 4pp manuscript notes and references headed
list of
Invitation
acceptance;
"Notes on water treatment", written 28 November 1949;
committee members, sent 29 November.
28 November 1949 (see covering note at G.2).
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F.C. Frank
First committee meeting, Derby,
present.
2 December 1949.
Frank was
Papers and minutes of meeting.
With Frank’s "Memorandum to the
Chairman" recording the views he expressed at the meeting, 2pp
typescript.
Reports
reports are retained in their original folders.
treatment submitted by
on water
BR Regions.
The
East and North East Region.
London Midland Region.
Southern Region.
Western Region.
Frank
*
Foam
Inhibition
in
Industrial
Bairstow,
Generators",
Divisional Chemist,
Agenda, papers and minutes of meeting.
Second committee meeting, Doncaster, 17 January 1950.
was absent.
Correspondence with S.
London
Midland Region, December 1949, January 1950, re L.O. Gunderson
and W.L. Denman'’s paper "Polyamide Foam Inhibitors - Mechanism
of
and
Steam
Engineering Chemistry 40 (1948).
Includes reprint of paper for
ease of reference.
highlighted the inefficiency of the water softening plants.
a water softening chemist with London Midland
Hancock was
Region.
the Toton-Brent
experiment, designed to find whether a “continuous supply of
correctly conditioned water"
the Toton-
corrosion-free
Brent
The experiment suggested it did, but also
locomotive boilers".
Report on "The Toton-Brent Experiment" by J.S. Hancock, January
1950.
In original folder.
for locomotives on
section of
track resulted
in
"clean,
He reported for
the committee on
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Committee meetings 3-11, January-August 1950.
from all these meetings.
Frank was absent
Minutes only.
a meeting with J.S.
Letter and Frank’s manuscript notes of
Hancock, S. Bairstow and T.F.B. Simpson (Committee Chairman),
Derby, 24 February 1950.
Letter to R.V. Jones complaining about BR’s "complete lack of
acquaintance with research", 4 April 1950.
Memorandum on visit
Treatment Committee,
binding.
France
to
April
1950.
by representatives of
stiff
original
In
Water
cover
The Committee representatives (not including Frank) visited
France to inspect locomotive boilers and the water treatment
system on French railways.
Twelfth committee meeting, Derby, 4 October 1950.
present.
Frank was
Includes report "Water
the London Midland Region" by J.S. Hancock.
Correspondence, agenda, papers and draft minutes of meeting.
Agenda, papers and minutes of meeting.
softening on
Thirteenth committee meeting, Derby, 9-10 January 1951.
was absent.
Correspondence from T.F.B. Simpson re tests on the effect of
dirty boilers on fuel consumption, August, October 1950.
Draft minutes only.
Fourteenth committee meeting, Derby,
present.
Frank
20 February.
Frank was
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F.C. Frank
Committee Report, completed February 1951.
Frank's manuscript corrections to first draft of Report.
Second "Draft Report", December 1950.
corrections and related correspondence.
With Frank's manuscript
Final
Purposes", February 1951.
"Report
on
Treatment
of
Water
used
for
Locomotive
Frank's bound copy.
Miscellaneous background material
Chief Mechanical
North
Eastern Railway, "Report on Comparative Evaporation Tests on
Locomotive
plus
photographs, graphs, table.
Department,
Engineer's
typescript
Boilers",
August
London
1931.
8pp
and
With Frank's manuscript calculations and diagrams found with
Lt:
Information on T.I.A.
system of water treatment.
(Traitement
Interne
Integral Armand)
in
the
DE BEERS
G.24-G.99
The T.I.A.
interest to
treatment of
tender with a special alkali-tannin solution.
system was widely used in France and was of much
It combined external
the
the Committee (see G.14).
Manuscript notes by Frank.
"feed water" with dosage of water
his capacity as consultant.
Frank’s association with De Beers,
the South African mining
company, began in 1949 when, at the suggestion of F.E. (later
Sir
Industrial
Distributors Ltd., invited Frank to serve as
a consultant on
diamond
renewed
thereafter.
Frank's other formal connections with De Beers
were through the Diamond Conferences and the Diamond Research
Committee, which the company funded, and through a series of
patent cases in the early 1960s in which he gave evidence in
subsidiary,
initially
research,
Francis)
1949-86
Simon,
years
three
Beers
a
De
for
but
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F.C. Frank
According to Frank's account, given to the 1975 Diamond
Dinner (G.95), the Diamond Conferences were initiated by Simon,
who persuaded Sir Ernest Oppenheimer,
Beers
"that at
cost of funding an annual
conference he could be in touch with a hundred scientists, who
would have cost him one
or two million a year to put on his
payroll."
the comparatively small
The first was held in 1950.
Chairman of
De
Shortly after Simon's death in 1956 the Diamond Research
the Reading
Committee was formed, under the chairmanship of
Diamond
physicist
Conferences, and to allocate funding from De Beers for diamond
research projects
UK.
the
committee from its foundation.
Frank was
Ditchburn,
a member
organise
both
R.W.
the
the
in
of
to
a
of
Frank's consultancy with De Beers led to his involvement
in
cases brought against the American company
series
General Electric's attempt to patent its method of synthesising
the
diamond
Transvaal
who
represented De Beers’ interests.
South Africa.
for
Mines
affidavits
Chamber
Orange
State
Frank
Free
gave
and
of
in
In connection with his work for De Beers, whether as
a
consultant on diamonds or as a member of the Diamond Research
Committee, Frank made a number of visits to South Africa.
The material is arranged as follows:
.24-G.
.28-G.
2. 20-6.
7. /6-G.8
7c
Industrial Distributors
Diamond Conferences
Diamond Research Committee
Patent Cases
in
re
G.24
1952;
offer
>.87-G.°
Miscellaneous
brief exchanges
Industrial Distributors
of consultancy and
With an introductory note
"Memorandum on growth of diamonds",
Simon and Industrial Distributors,
Correspondence with F.E.
1949-57.
its
Includes
12pp
renewal.
manuscript, 16 December 1951;
letter from Simon, 13 May 1954,
re "continuing the contract" in view of Frank's lecture on "Tin
whiskers" to
1953 Diamond Conference (G.29) which some
"thought a little remote".
of the paper.
Includes "original" typescript draft of Neuhaus’s paper with
Frank’s manuscript notes on Grodzinski’s translation of Part
III
Brief
of
Industrial Distributors’ Diamond Research Department re paper
"Uber die synthese des Diamanten" by A. Neuhaus.
correspondence,
Grodzinski
1954,
July
with
the
P.
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Correspondence, 1957-60.
Includes correspondence re diamonds required for research at
typescript record of cable sent
Bristol University, 1957-60;
24 November 1959,
to J.F.H.
Custers,
congratulating him
synthesis of diamond;
press-cutting recording Frank’s condemnation of apartheid in
South African universities.
Director of Research,
on
the successful
Visit to South Africa’ 1961.
Frank was
(later Diamond) Research Laboratory, Johannesburg,
programme
synthetic
considerably larger than the ones we now make every day".
invited to help Industrial Distributors’ Adamant
"start a
diamonds
production
aiming
the
of
at
this field and expresses the
The invitation mentions the success of General Electric
that Frank's work on
will not prevent his assisting Industrial
hope
in
diamonds for G.E.
Distributors.
Invitation;
memorabilia.
Diamond Conferences
material
relating
to
the
organisation
of
Oxford, July 1952:
Frank’s manuscript notes on proceedings.
Frank spoke on "An explanation of the
Correspondence re arrangements;
notes on proceedings;
Oxford, 9-11 July 1953.
formation of tin whiskers" (see G.25).
Further
the
conferences may be found under the Diamond Research Committee,
G.56-G.75.
manuscript notes on proceedings.
Caius
Frank
"Necessary conditions for the growth of diamonds".
Oxford,
-
transformations".
30 June
manuscript notes on proceedings.
manuscript notes on "Whiskers".
Frank spoke on "Martensitic
Provisional lecture list;
Provisional programme;
College
Cambridge,
1-3
July
1954.
2 July 1955.
lecture list;
manuscript
spoke
on
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.C,.
Frank
Reading,
South Africa (G.27) and did not feel able to give a paper.
Frank had recently returned from
18-19 July 1961.
Brief correspondence;
of participants.
annotated provisional programme;
list
Cambridge, 25-26 June 1962.
Annotated programme and list of participants.
Reading, July 1965.
Includes Frank’s after-dinner "words of thanks".
Cambridge, 10-11 July 1967.
Lists of participants.
Bristol, 8-9 July 1968.
and presented a paper jointly with M. Moore and A.R.
"Simulation of solution forms of diamond".
Frank helped organise the conference
Lang on
Letter re arrangements.
asking that
it
be submitted to
Reading, 24-27 September 1969.
letter from E. Gerryts, 19 September,
List of participants;
Before
with "Comment on ‘Defect in Diamond’" by D.R. Grantham.
paper
his death Grantham sent Gerryts this
delivered by Frank at the 1966 International Industrial Diamond
Conference (G.90-G.92),
the
Reading conference.
Harris and H.J. Milledge.
Correspondence re Soviet participation;
and papers;
manuscript notes on proceedings etc.
"A Kimberlite Exhibition"
Brasenose College Oxford,
Guidebook for
organised by
J.W.
"Comment"
on
a
12-15 July 1970.
lists of participants
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FO. 2brank
Cambridge, 14-17 July 1971.
Correspondence re arrangements, including correspondence from
R.W. Ditchburn re Soviet participation;
heavily annotated programme;
list of participants;
brief manuscript notes.
Bristol, 13-15 July 1972.
dissolution shapes".
Frank spoke on "Kinematic theory of
Correspondence re arrangements;
annotated lists of papers.
Reading, 15-18 July 1973.
Lists of papers submitted and participants.
Oxford, 3-6 July 1974.
Correspondence re Soviet participation; lists of participants.
Churchill College Cambridge, 6-9 July 1975.
This
was
held
information;
provisional
immediately
following
the
lists of participants;
Invitation;
programme.
Kimberlite Symposium, St. John’s College Cambridge, 10-11 July
LOS
Diamond
Conference.
List of participants;
miscellaneous correspondence including
letter from the Industrial Diamond Information Bureau inviting
Frank to write on the future of diamond research for Diamond
Research, and typescript draft of Frank’s contribution.
manuscript notes on proceedings.
Includes brief manuscript notes
finance for 1977 conference.
Bristol, 12-14 July 1976.
Reading, 6-9 July 1977.
list
of participants;
on programme for
1976
and
programme;
Frank's
Information;
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St. Catharine's College Oxford, 9-12 July 1978.
Letter fromR.W. Ditchburn re Soviet participation; programme;
list of participants.
Newnham College Cambridge, 8-11 July 1979.
Conference information;
definitions" by J.E. Field compiled for the conference.
"Diamond: properties and
abstracts;
Kimberlite Symposium II, Cambridge, 11-14 July 1979.
held immediately following the Diamond Conference.
This was
Brief correspondence arising from a discussion in which Frank
participated;
"summary" of discussion.
Bristol, 7-9 July 1980.
Programme;
list of participants.
Reading, 8-11 July 1981.
Frank
led
a
College
Cambridge,
6-9
July
1983.
Oxtora. o-/ July 1982 -
Newnham
discussion.
Brief correspondence only.
Includes annotated programme.
Conference
participants.
abstract.
Reading, 10-13 July 1985.
Frank led a discussion.
Bristol, 9-11 July 1984.
list of participants;
Annotated programme;
list of participants.
Frank led a discussion.
information;
abstracts;
programme ;
bist
sor
Programme;
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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College London, 7-9 July 1986.
Brief correspondence including reference to current unrest in
South Africa.
Oxford, nd.
Frank spoke on "Plastic deformation in diamond".
Lecture list;
deformation;
manuscript and typescript drafts on plastic
manuscript notes on proceedings.
Diamond Research Committee
The material is principally papers for Committee meetings to
consider research proposals, half yearly reports on research,
and correspondence, chiefly with R.W. Ditchburn, re diamond
conferences, research proposals and patenting.
R.W. Ditchburn was chairman of the Committee until July
1982 when he was succeeded by E.W.J. Mitchell.
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Patent Cases
it was judged to
be
In February 1955 the American company General Electric (GE)
announced it
had found a method of synthesising diamonds.
This was immediately placed under a US government secrecy order
as
for the objector.
The order was lifted on 8 September 1959 and the next day
GE filed five patent applications in South Africa to protect
its inventions.
Three were opposed by the Transvaal and Orange
Free State Chamber of Mines, on behalf of
De Beers (3550/59,
3551/59 and 3547/59).
A further patent application was made
on 7 December (4878/59) and this too was challenged.
Frank was
asked by the lawyers acting for the Chamber of Mines to provide
affidavits on its behalf.
of strategic significance.
there was a potential clash of interests.
by
excluded from its provisions (see G.110).
As GE also occasionally employed Frank as a consultant,
This was resolved
on diamonds was
Frank duly testified
GE providing a contract in which work
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F.C. Frank
and
until
saturated.
Upon cooling the
The basic patent (3550) was for a method of synthesising
non-diamond carbon into diamond by subjecting it
to a pressure
of 80,000-110,000 atmospheres and a temperature of 1400-1800°C
in the presence of a metallic solvent or catalyst.
The molten
metal dissolves the carbon which is distributed through the
metal
solution becomes
super-saturated
-
diamonds.
The other patents referred to improvements on this
process.
3551
the catalyst
(lowering the temperature and, more importantly, the pressure
required for the conversion of carbon to diamond), 3547 to
a
way of eliminating the need to determine the temperature at
which conversion occurs by providing a method of observing
changes in electrical resistance,
a method of
creating better artificial diamonds by arranging the carbon and
catalyst in alternate laminae or layers.
using an alloy as
related to
and 4878
crystals
carbon
solid
shed
to
as
is
Various grounds for objection were raised but only two
were used in court,
the "obviousness" and the eLNUCLUILY "of
the alleged inventions.
The first maintained that no inventive
step was required beyond what was common knowledge in the area,
the second that within the terms of the patent application the
invention would not necessarily work.
Frank's affidavits
mainly supported the objection of "obviousness" and the related
"lack of novelty" charge (which was, however, dropped, partly
because as Frank himself stated GE were correct in claiming the
natural
processes
"not
assuredly known").
formation of
diamond were
for
the
come
to
GE
the
case
for
Sir
John
that
be
used
in
the
weak.
Patents
Clayden,
dismissed
"“inutility"
The first judgement, delivered on 30 November 1964 by the
the
Commissioner
objections.
The chief "inutility" argument, based on whether
the GE term “carboneous material" might not also refer to forms
of carbon for which the process would be ineffective,
was
rejected because the objectors could not
up with any
reasonable such material for which the process would not work.
Frank had in fact argued against another objection on these
grounds, which claimed that the patent specification included
metals which would not melt at the temperatures specified, and
rather
felt
was
The
"obviousness" case was also dismissed.
According to Clayden
the "common knowledge in the art at the effective date of the
application" did not include the precise forms of the carbon
and catalyst
right
He ruled that it was not
pressure and temperature required.
common knowledge that graphite would be
form of carbon
GE
used,
diamonds
Nickel-based
assumed
substance) must be the catalyst.
calibrating pressure, however, which Clayden ruled was "common
Lonsdale’s analysis of
Most importantly the
an attempt to
create synthetic diamonds by the GE method in September 1959
would have failed because of mistakes in the calculation of
pressure.
had relied upon experiment to
determine the pressures and temperatures needed for success,
but soon afterwards R. Berman and Sir Francis Simon produced
their "curve" which became accepted as the theoretical guide
to the correct thermodynamic conditions for diamond synthesis.
The
of
that following K.
In their work GE
Resistance
Electrical
Bridgman
accepted
process,
method
found
judge
Nickel
or
the
(or
a
it
would
be
that
and
the
the
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In 1961 it was found to be 30%
knowledge" in 1959, was faulty.
Therefore in 1959 anyone following the
out at high pressures.
Berman-Simon curve to reach the right pressure and temperature
to create diamonds by the GE method would fail, they would not
be calculating pressure accurately.
the following:
Frank criticised the judgement noting "The odd outcome
is
GE placed too much reliance on Bridgman.
This is taken as cogent evidence that everyone would place too
so that GE succeeds because of
much reliance on Bridgman ...
this mistake on
He
"good
grounds" for challenging this judgement.
that there were
its part."
felt
The Chamber of Mines went to the Court of Appeal.
Here
too, on 16 June 1966, the "inutility" arguments were rejected.
But that on the grounds of "obviousness" was sustained.
J.
Galgut presiding found that GE itself had revealed most
of
the facts behind the processes and the rest were "obvious" to
As Frank had stated in
any competent diamond-synthesiser.
his affidavit, the only novelty with the
its
"excellent apparatus" which could sustain the high pressures
and temperatures which were commonly known to
GE process was
be required.
as
would
for
the
of
of
a
high
(and not
and
that
would
have
which
has
Bridgman
flaw
of
pointing out
that
"production
the periodic table
Electrical
effectively
According to Galgut Graphite was obviously the
most
be used (being easily obtained in a
likely form of carbon to
Furthermore, it was not
pure form which could be broken down).
likely that Nickel would be thought of
the only catalyst.
Frank had argued that it was well-known that a number of molten
metals from group VIII
just
"dissolve
melting
Nickel,
point)
substantial quantities of carbon in
an atomically dispersed
Finally he rejected the ruling that the
form", including iron.
Resistance
undetected
in
the
calculation
prevented
the alternative (and accurate)
synthesis,
Bridgman volume method was well-known,
using the
Berman-Simon curve with the uncorrected electrical resistance
calculation of pressure,
it was possible to achieve diamond
synthesis.
In 1961 GE applied for two more related patents, 2117/61,
which
was
conductive
diamonds" by adding boron or aluminium to the melt, and 1218/61
referring to
Both were
the effect that in
contested, Frank producing affidavits to
both
an
imitation of known natural occurrences.
a solvent", case 3974 was dropped in 1962.
The material is chiefly copies of
the affidavits and other
evidence presented at the hearings, together with copies of the
two judgements, correspondence from Spoor & Fisher representing
the
Frank’s
of
There are also copies of affidavits presented in
affidavits.
a rival De Beers patent application (3974/58) to
respect of
which GE objected.
The applicants claimed that whereas the GE
process for synthesising diamond operated, according to their
application, by catalytic process, theirs operated purely by
a "solvent" process.
it was accepted in the cases brought
against GE that,
if broadly defined, a "catalyst could also
be
diamond surfaces.
electrically
the
etching
manuscript
and
no
more
process
was
cases
the
drafts
of
Chamber
Mines,
and
obvious
than
pressure
of
As
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F.C. Frank
Correspondence with
chiefly on diamond synthesis, 1962.
Spoor & Fisher and notes re
the
case,
Correspondence with Spoor & Fisher, Frank's notes on the case
CbC.;
“L963:
"Summarised Report on Experimental Work Carried Out at Adamant
Research Laboratory in Connection with General Electric Company
Affidavits",
llpp duplicated typescript and
table.
With two envelopes of photographs inscribed "Diamonds
grown in metal"
(9 photographs) and "Diamond dissolution by
metals" (7 photographs).
1963,
June
12
Correspondence with Spoor & Fisher 1964.
Includes manuscript
draft of Frank's letter, dated 19 December, criticising Sir
John Clayden'’s Judgement (G.82).
Frank's manuscript draft affidavits.
Original Judgement, 30 November 1964.
Appeal Court Judgement, 16 June 1966.
Frank’s manuscript draft "Replies to Applicant’s evidence".
1218/61 and 2117/61.
Patent applications,
letters of demands and notices
exhibits.
of opposition;
Affidavits for 3974/58, 3547/59, 3551/59, 4878/59,
memorandum on evidence;
.84-G.86
Evidence presented.
3 boxes.
Box 1
Affidavits for 3550/59.
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Miscellaneous
C87
the
Visit to South Africa, 1959.
by
University of the Witwatersrand, at
Nabarro.
Students’
Visiting
Frank was invited to South Africa
the
the suggestion of F.R.N.
Lecturers
Trust
Fund
of
Invitation;
letters from W.F. Cotty of the Diamond Producers
Association London Committee introducing Frank to the Secretary
and the Chief Diamond Valuator of
De Beers.
Report by
Creusot,
implications for diamond research.
Mitchell
2-6
E.W.J.
France,
on
August
High Pressure Conference,
1965,
reference
with
to
Le
the
by
to
the
South Africa,
was
Visit
Fund
invited
Committee of the University of Natal, 12 June 1964.
While in
South Africa Frank visited the universities of Port Elizabeth
and
Diamond Research
Laboratory.
August-September 1965.
Lecturers
the Witwatersrand and
Students’
Visiting
worked
Frank
Trust
the
at
Invitation;
correspondence re arrangements.
of
lp
and
list
28pp
Oxford,
See G.35.
manuscript
Industrial
manuscript
Diamond Conference,
Conference brochure;
typescript
of
drafts
references.
background information etc.
The conference was sponsored by De Beers.
International
September 1966.
91).
19-22
Frank spoke on "Defects in diamonds" (Bibliog.
Frank's
33pp
contribution;
Dok.
Grantham’s comments on Frank's contribution were submitted to
the 1969 Diamond Conference.
Invitation only.
Manuscript diagrams of lattices and diamonds found with the
preceding.
De
Recent
Developments
London, 2 July 1968.
Day Conference on
Diamond,
Beers Industrial Diamond Division One
Production
Grinding
with
in
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Correspondence, signed menu from colleagues attending dinner
in honour of W.F. Cotty’s promotion to Technical and Diamond
Consultant with De Beers’ Industrial Diamond Division, 17 March
Te 71
to undergo an
operation and the letters express the hope that he will make
a swift recovery.
attend,
having
unable
Frank
was
to
Diamond Dinner,
21 March 1975.
Invitation;
Diamond Conferences and early participants.
Frank's speech recalling the establishment of the
to
South Africa,
Visit
was
invited by the University of the Witwatersrand in conjunction
with De Beers.
October-November 1977.
Frank
Invitation and correspondence re arrangements;
visit to Kimberley, 9-10 November.
programme for
Photocopy of article
on natural
annotated by Frank, 2 July 1979.
diamond by
D.N.
Robinson,
by
"What
is
the
of
the
1987
to
a
study
on
Frank
results
of
discuss
beginning
magnitude
signed and
"man made platelets in diamonds",
"Cutting action, wear and fracture of rounded diamond", 15pp
1966).
typescript,
bibliographical
Photograph of
dated "Trevor Evans 6/5/80".
Note
the
absorption coeff[{[icient] of Diamond betw[een] 2000A and 3000A",
lp manuscript, nd.
Invitation to visit Diamond Research Laboratory in January or
February
the
"morphology and growth mechanism" of large synthetic diamonds.
Author not named.
reference
(latest
nd.
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‘Frank
G.100-G.113
GENERAL ELECTRIC (GE)
1951-62
of
to attend conferences and
the Metallurgy and
Frank served as occasional consultant in
GE's Research Laboratory,
Ceramics Research Department
under flexible contracts that allowed him
Schenectady, NY,
other
scope
His 1956 consultancy specified he was
research establishments.
an advisor on "physics of solids".
Exclusion of consulting
about diamonds had been informally agreed from the beginning,
but
South African patents dispute
between GE and de Beers, this exclusion was explicitly written
into the contract (see G.76-G.86 and G.110).
visit colleagues in
in view of
1962
the
in
me that
by which time
would doubtless be
it would be tactful if
"There was no formal end to this consultancy.
It was put
I deferred my next summer
to
vacation visit (which I had been making every second year) by
the patents dispute between GE and de
a year,
Beers
the dispute
dragged on and by the time it was over my principal friends at
Schenectady, with whom details of
the next visit would have
been arranged, had moved elsewhere.
I did make several visits
of one or two days subsequently, at which I was consulted on
various scientific questions (one of which might have led to
something patentable, but didn’t) but never for long enough to
receive payment."
(F.C.F., private communication, 9 September
1989).
concluded.
However,
pLOOW GC HEOT:
1956 May-September.
For
of
and
During this extensive consultancy with GE Frank
number of conferences in North America (see H.26,
.:°.
G3)"
by
1958.
112
duly.
sciven
Frank
Frank,
crystals
.102-G.108
photographs
memorabilia.
see A.95.
GE,
Miscellaneous
colleagues at
notice of special seminar on
Copy of consultancy contract;
ThLigquids
brief
correspondence re patent for Magnetic Annealing in Rotating
Magnetic Field.
sub-boundaries and Kronberg-Wilson relationships".
Brief correspondence;
notices
of
Frank
gave seminars on
11 September on "Kinematic theory of
crystal dissolution and growth" and "Coincidence Lattices -
As in 1956 Frank was able to combine a lengthy consultancy with
GE with attendance at
a number of conferences and seminars in
America (see H.29-H.31).
GE Research Laboratory seminars and colloquia etc.
copy of consultancy contract;
5 and
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Memorabilia.
.104-G.108
Miscellaneous manuscript and typescript drafts and notes by
Frank found with material re 1958 consultancy.
. 104
"Layering
typescript with manuscript corrections plus figures.
coordination
structures",
higher
the
in
Illpp
geometrical
"The
compounds", 2pp typescript plus figures.
structures
basis
of
of
intermetallic
"Detailed geometry of the four special coordination shells",
Spp manuscript and 3pp typescript drafts.
"Some definitions relating to coordination", S5pp manuscript
and 2pp typescript drafts.
"Properties of regular solids", lp duplicated typescript plus
tables.
meO07,
.G.106
Manuscript notes and diagrams chiefly re lattices.
1962.
re
1960.
Between
Letter
Company and F.C. Frank", 9 August 1962.
"Consulting Agreement
Correspondence from J.H. Hollomon, 1960 re possibility of Frank
visiting Schenectady laboratories, etc.
crystal surface energies".
To avoid a conflict of interests between Frank's consultancies
for GE and De Beers it was agreed that the terms of
the GE
consultancy should exclude diamond research.
Includes
1962
mentioning Frank's seminar "A commentary on theorems concerning
Laboratory
Research
Electric
General
August
Notes
for
22
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Includes
process’ for making diamonds".
release,
press
7
September,
re
"A
new
‘direct
According to the press release "
achieve pressures and temperatures so
catalyst is
into diamond.
it has become possible to
metal
no longer needed" to convert non-diamond carbon
high
that
the
...
Calculations by Frank found with preceding material.
2pp manuscript calculation of
which cross a plane, how many do not re-cross it?”
"Problem:
a
Includes
Of random paths
IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES (ICI)
1974-75
Frank’s consultancy with ICI was terminated in July 1975.
Brief correspondence includes Frank's comments on ICI's "dairy-
separator version of the gas centrifuge", 1974.
NY,
1973:
1973-82
G 14 54C A 22
Invitation to serve as consultant.
Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights,
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (IBM)
IBM at their Thomas
Frank served as occasional consultant to
J.
combining
short spells at the Center with visits to colleagues at other
research centres, and attendance at conferences, in the US and
Canada.
Growth, Boston, MA, with consultancy work.
combine
1977 International Conference on Crystal
Invitation,
attendance at
suggesting
December
Frank
POLL
9
the
1976,
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1:978.
Letter re arrangements etc.
See also H.116.
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Report "The science of
crystal
Frank’s
annotations and interleaved manuscript notes.
education
growth",
course.
With
IBM
an
1980 3-7 November.
Frank was invited to the Watson Research Center on the occasion
of
US National
the
Academy of Engineering (see A.27, H.140-H.142).
Foreign Associate of
being
made
his
a
Correspondence re arrangements;
Physics Colloquium "On definitions of supersaturation";
notices of Frank's
etc.
contract;
Correspondence and papers re attempt to obtain permanent US
residence for Swiss IBM colleague.
contract;
etc.
pe 2k
itinerary;
1982 24-28 July
Correspondence re arrangements;
Frank was invited to the Watson Research Center in conjunction
with the 1982 Gordon Research Conference (H.150, H.151).
Includes reprints
Contents of folder inscribed "Van Vechten".
of two articles, 1977 and 1978, by J.A. Van Vechten, a member
of the Research Center, with Frank's manuscript annotations and
miscellaneous manuscript notes.
With photocopy of the patent specification.
Request from the solicitors of
to "review the technical
arguments concerning the novelty, inventiveness or otherwise
"the so-called
of
Schadt-Helfrich twisted nematic liquid crystal display",
2
September.
PCI DISPLAYS PTE LTD
Found with G.121.
Roche patent"
[Hoffman La]
covering
PCI
1981
the
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J.A. RADLEY (LABORATORIES) LTD
(later J.A. RADLEY RESEARCH INSTITUTE)
1960-63
The Radley Laboratories were
a commercial research company
started "to cater for small firms ... who were, individually,
not in a position to set up their own laboratories".
Frank was
initially asked to become a consultant in connection with work
being done on metal whiskers and crystal structure in April
1960.
the Institute.
He later became a co-opted governor of
Correspondence
"An
introduction to Radley Industrial Research and Development
Laboratories".
consultancy,
booklet
April
1960;
re
Notice of formation of Radley Research Institute 1961;
reports
1959-60 and
report,
6 September 1961;
Governors, 10 April 1962.
annual
interim progress
agenda for first AGM of Board of
Chairman’s
1961-62;
Letter to Frank, 23 January 1963, including list of "ideas for
research proposals".
3.127-G.130
Pp
Radley Laboratories/Research Institute Final Technical Reports:
N
/
g.12/
from solid surfaces", 1959
"General mechanism of drainage
"Mechanism of corrosion of copper and copper alloys by ammonia
SOLUEEONS |. 3.7% 1959:
"The effect of sugars and other hydroxy compounds as inhibitors
De CODrosi on. at LOS.
"Catalysis at semi-conductor surfaces", 1962.
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SECTION H
VISITS AND CONFERENCES
H.1-H.169
Not all of Frank's extensive travel and attendance at conferences is
documented in this section.
Frank attended conferences held by a number of
Societies and Organisations, most notably the International Organisation of
Crystal Growth (F.116-F.175) and the Pugwash movement (F.205-F.250), and made
a number of visits to South Africa in connection with his consultancy with De
Beers (G.24-G.99)
The presentation is chronological as
far
as
possible.
Material
relating to invitations either declined or for which there is no evidence of
acceptance is placed at the end of the sequence for each year.
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1939
ICI (Plastics) Ltd. colloquium, Billingham, Durham, 6 January.
Frank spoke
"The high frequency electrical behaviour of
plastics and other insulating materials".
on
Correspondence re arrangements;
contribution.
advance summary of Frank's
1948
Colston
Bristol, 20-24 September.
Research
Society
Symposium
on
Cosmic
Radiation,
HMSO diary for 1946 used from the front for Frank’s notes on
proceedings, including loose manuscript notes.
the back
are unrelated notes and calculations.
At
Brief correspondence re publication of Frank's report on the
symposium.
1949
British Association for
Newcastle,
investigations at Bristol University".
7 September.
31 August -
the Advancement of Science Meeting,
Frank spoke on "Recent
1950
Paris,
3-8
26 September.
nvitations for 1949
British Rheologists’ Club,
Brief correspondence only.
Societé Francaise de Métallurgie autumn meeting,
October.
Brief correspondence, 1949-50, re visit of Frank and N.F. Mott.
Visit to Paris, January.
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Visit to USA,
15 April -
23 June.
Frank was initially invited to present a paper at the Office
of Naval Research/Carnegie Institute of Technology Conference
on the Fundamentals of the Plastic Deformation of Crystalline
Solids
later
Metals),
Pittsburgh, PA,
19-20 May, where he spoke on "The origin of
dislocations".
on
recrystallisation at Notre Dame and was invited to visit and
speak at other research centres.
See H.6 for itinerary.
Deformation
conference
attended
changed
(title
also
to
of
He
a
Invitations;
itinerary for 20 April -
30 May.
correspondence re arrangements with colleagues;
Conference on Recrystallisation, Notre Dame,
IN,
1-2 June.
Correspondence;
Pp
rogramme;
Frank's notes on papers
presented.
Invitation for 1951
Conference on Dielectrics, Liverpool, July.
1953
crossing
of
screw
(at
(not
a
cluster
dislocations
in Frank's hand)
Symposium on Crystal Plasticity, 18 May.
headed "Dislocation
the
Programme with Frank's manuscript notes on back.
Conference on Lattice Defects and the Electrical Resistivity
of Metals, Birmingham, 24-25 April.
Manuscript notes
loops
Symposium on Crystal Plasticity, 5/18, 1953)".
programme.
Frank visited Japan for
the International Union of Pure and
Applied Physics
(IUPAP) Conference on Theoretical Physics,
Kyoto and Tokyo, September, and its associated symposia and
meetings.
He chaired a session of the Conference and spoke on
"Visual evidence of dislocations" at a pre-conference Symposium
on Crystal Plasticity and Deformation, Nikko, 12-13 September.
Frank also attended several informal meetings and visited a
number of Japanese research centres.
re
lists of participants;
Correspondence
conference;
Visit to Japan, September-October.
arrangements
organisers
for
IUPAP
with
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US IUPAP National Committee information notes for the American
delegation.
Programmes for the Nikko symposium;
drafts of Frank's contribution.
manuscript and typescript
programme
Crystal
Annotated
Other
Dislocation,
Metals, Tohoku University, 29 September, attended by Frank and
N.F. Mott.
With information on the Research Institute.
for
Institute
Informal
for
Research
Meeting
Steel
Iron,
and
on
Frank's manuscript notes on discussion on "Science and Peace".
Participants
Japanese
scientists.
included
Feynman
several
R.P.
and
Material re other meetings and lectures.
Information on Japanese research centres.
;
i
Pp
grap
2 folders.
Photographs (some mounted, probably used by Frank to illustrate
his lectures).
to Conference delegates re
Invitations and information sent
"Hiroshima", a Japanese film shown at Tokyo University during
the conference.
lists of participants.
United Steel Companies Ltd. Conference for University Lecturers
and Tutors in Science and Engineering on Iron and Steel Making,
Research and Engineering, Sheffield University, 6-11 September.
Miscellaneous memorabilia.
Programme;
2 folders.
1954
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1955
S.0. hardback notebook used by Frank for notes on unidentified
conference [?
on irradiation], July.
Participants include A.H. Cottrell, N.F. Mott, E.W.J. Mitchell,
G.¥ 0; Garlick; H.S.W. Massey; M°H.L:..
Pryce.
International
Colloquium, San Lorenzo del Escorial, Spain, September.
Theoretical
Applied
Union
and
of
Mechanics
Signed menu and hotel bill.
Not otherwise documented.
1956
Visit to USA and Canada, May-September.
this
Frank
served
period
General
During
Electric (GE) at their Research Laboratory Schenectady, NY (see
Whilst in North America Frank attended a number
G.100, G.102).
of
on
Theoretical Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, 17-21
September.
International
conferences
consultant
including
Congress
the
to
as
re
19
on
bist.
22-24
Frank
July;
notes
August.
Frank's
Edmonton,
Conference,
Conference
manuscript
arrangements;
Gordon Research
Material re other engagements fulfilled by Frank.
Invitation to Seattle Congress; correspondence with organisers
and
of
participants;
preliminary programme etc.
These included Special Physics Colloquium, Brookhaven National
Laboratory,
the
Canadian Metal
Chemistry and Physics of Metals, 23-27 July;
Physics
also
appeared in a television programme on Crystals broadcast in San
Francisco, 24 September (see E./78).
Correspondence re arrangements.
Birmingham University Research colloquium,
Frank
spoke on "Complex alloy structures and the packing of spheres"
(see D.44, D.45).
16 April.
1957
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1958
Be 29-31
Visit;co. USA.
NY,
Frank served as consultant to GE at their Research Laboratory,
(see G.102-G.108)
Schenectady,
Whilst in the US Frank attended international conferences at
and was invited to speak at
Rochester and Cooperstown,
colloquia
of
Maryland.
Washington,
University
NY,
D.C.
summer
1958
and
the
the
in
at
in
of
International
Rochester, NY,
Conference
18-22 August.
on Superconductors,
University of
Programme;
Frank’s manuscript notes.
International Conference on Crystal Growth, Cooperstown, NY,
27-29 August.
Frank gave the Introductory Lecture and papers
on "Theory of dissolution shapes and transient growth shapes
of crystals" and "Electron microscope observations of moire
patterns in single crystals of Polyethylene" (with A.W. Agar
and A. Keller).
Programme;
"Extemporaneous comments" by
Frank and conference photograph with key,
list of participants;
Frank’s manuscript notes;
For photographs of
see A.96.
Seitz.
F.
so
at
material
H.32-H.40
imprinted:
displayed
envelope
sheets
exhibits
divided
Contents
of
information
Exposition.
entitled "Atom", "Molecule", "Crystal" and "Living Cell".
of
French, German or Dutch.
duplicated typescript
the
sections
Most
in
the information sheets are
explaining
is
"Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles”.
Invitation to Frank to speak at
the Greater Washington Solid
State Physics and University of Maryland Physics Department
colloquia.
2 folders.
de
Keyser, head of the Mineralogy Department of Ghent University,
who
had
considerable research interests in common with the Mineralogy
Department at Ghent and had received an honorary degree from
the University three years earlier.
Frank visited the Exposition with Professor Willi
crystallography
"Atom" section.
in English,
organised
exhibits.
few are
Frank
four
into
but
a
The
the
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H.34-H. 36
"Molecule" section.
3 folders.
"Crystal" section.
2 folders.
"Living Cell" section.
2 folders.
1961
High Polymer Research Group Conference on the Relation between
Chemical Structure and Physical Properties of Elastomers with
Particular Reference to the Fundamental Aspects of the Subject,
Moretonhampstead, Devon,
17-21 April.
Programme with list of participants.
on
The
was
a
member
pe
2 October.
which
visited
universities
transcript of Frank’s
of
a
British
Council
draft Conference Report;
Programme;
contribution.
Properties
Frank spoke on "Polymers".
Solids,
of
Visit to Czechoslovakia, 18 September -
Frank
Czechoslovakia
Bratislava, Brno and Olomouc.
National Research Development Corporation Solid State Sciences
Conference
Caius
Mechanical
College Cambridge, 13-17 July.
delegation members.
Correspondence
itineraries;
arrangements;
by
the British Council
reports on visit
Council
for
delegation
to
Prague,
in
with
British
re
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1962
Vusir.
to. USA:
Frank again served as consultant to GE at Schenectady in late
summer (G.110-G.113).
While in the US he attended the American
Chemical
Society Symposium on Crystallisation of Polymers,
Atlantic City, NJ,
10-11 September.
Programme;
re Atlantic City Symposium.
abstracts;
Frank's manuscript notes on proceedings
International
September.
Conference
on
Lattice
Defects,
Kyoto,
7-12
Correspondence with organisers and Royal Society re financial
arrangements.
Frank had initially intended to participate in
the conference but later withdrew.
1963
Conference on High Magnetic Fields, Brasenose College Oxford,
RO=11 . July.
Programme (with alteration by Frank);
abstracts.
Invitation;
Conference handbook.
International Conference on the Science of Superconductivity,
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY,
26-29 August.
correspondence re arrangements.
background information.
National Institute for Research in Nuclear Science meeting "to
discuss
neutron
source", Rutherford High Energy Laboratory, Chilton, Berks.,
3 aul ys
Brief
programme;
provision of
correspondence
with
Sir
John
Cockcroft,
chairman:
a
UK
high
flux
thermal
1964
the
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1964-65
Visit to USA.
Frank spent nine months in California as Visiting Professor at
the University of California's Institute for Geophysics and
Planetary Physics, La Jolla, San Diego.
In the US he visited
colleagues at
a number of other research establishments and
attended a VESIAC conference on Shallow Seismic Events.
Correspondence with colleagues re visits; manuscript notes for
lecture
Earth
Scientists, 2 March 1965.
deformation
solids"
"Modes
on
of
to
of
VESIAC Special Advisory Conference on Current Status and Future
Prognosis for Understanding the Source Mechanism of Shallow
Seismic Events in the 3
5 Magnitude Range, La Jolla, 22-24
March.
Frank led a discussion on "The physics of earthquake
sources".
to
Correspondence
Frank's introduction to the discussion.
organisers;
with
programme ;
abstracts;
Miscellaneous background material.
1965
1966
Mantle,
programme;
de
6-12 June.
International
Pont-a-
Correspondence with organisers re arrangements;
memorabilia.
Centre National
Colloquium on Adsorption et Croissance Cristalline,
Mousson, Nancy,
la Recherche Scientifique
British Ceramic Society and Netherlands Ceramic Society 3rd
Joint Meeting on Science of Ceramics, Bristol University, 5-
So. July:
contribution to discussion, etc.
Upper Mantle Committee Symposium on Non-Elastic Processes in
the
1966
(rearranged from 13-19 October 1965).
programme (with manuscript calculations on back).
Correspondence re arrangements;
Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
draft of Frank's
Invitation;
programmes;
21-25
February
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Symposium on areas for further research in polymer technology,
Loughborough, 31 March -
2 April.
Correspondence with organisers re arrangements;
list
version" of Frank's remarks.
participants;
abstracts;
transcript
of
programme;
and
"tidy
Duplicated typescript text of symposium proceedings.
Societa Italiana di Fisica meeting on European collaboration
in physics; Pisa,
16-17 ‘Aprid.
Correspondence
Working Groups.
re arrangements;
programmes;
reports
of
For Frank's report see Bibliog. 8/7 (D.69).
Conference handbook.
Battelle Institute colloquium on Phase Stability in Metals and
Alloys, Geneva and Villars, Switzerland, May.
Frank chaired
a discussion on Liquids and defect solids.
of Frank's
remarks;
Frank
1967
29 March -
General information;
contribution;
draft of Frank’s
correspondence re publication of proceedings.
list of participants;
Draft
taken
during discussion and group photograph of colloquium see A.96.
for photographs of
NATO Advanced Study Institute on
The Application of Modern
Physics to the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne,
4 April. Frank spoke on "Diamonds and deep
fluids in the upper mantle" (Bibliog. 99).
Correspondence re arrangements.
Royal Astronomical Society discussion on Earthquake Mechanism,
London,
Frank spoke on "Fracture mechanics of the
earthquake source".
Conference handbook.
28 April.
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Visit to USA, July-September.
CO.
Golden,
Frank visited the USA as consultant to the Colorado School of
US Frank visited several
Mines,
research centres including the
Institute of Geophysics and
Planetary Physics, Los Angeles and the Earthquake Mechanisms
Laboratory, San Francisco.
He also attended the 16th Annual
Denver X-ray Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis.
While
the
in
Correspondence
itinerary;
and
manuscript
notes
re
arrangements;
programme for Denver conference.
Invitation for 1967
Invitation to spend a school year at Northwestern University,
Ti.
1968
Official Founding Ceremony of
Geneva, 26 September.
the European Physical Society,
Correspondence re arrangements.
Frank combined a holiday in
Czechoslovakia, Austria and northern Italy with attendance at
the Ceremony.
He also briefly attended the Tremezzo course on
ceramic science and technology (E.21-E.27).
1969
H.67-H.71
Correspondence with possible participants, 1968.
Conference on Industry and the Science Graduate, Bristol, 25-
27 March.
The conference was proposed by Frank and organised with the
Department of Extra-Mural Studies.
Frank was a joint chairman
and spoke on "What industry desires from the universities".
extensively corrected draft of C.F. Powell's summing-up.
with
Correspondence
Department, 1968-69.
Draft programme and conference handbook.
Correspondence
proceedings.
Director
of
Extra-Mural
re
publication
of
G.
Cunliffe,
Includes
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Conference Report.
European Physical Society Inaugural Conference on The Growth
Points of Physics, Florence, 8-12 April.
addendum
to
list
of
participants;
Notice;
Czechoslovak
conference.
Journal
of
Physics
re
interview
letter
during
from
the
Societé Francaise de Physique Colloquium on Liquid Crystals,
Montpellier, 5-7 June.
Provisional
between Paris and Montpellier.
programme annotated by
Frank with
train
times
International
Chemistry
Microsymposium on Rheology of Polymer Solids and Concentrated
Solutions, Prague,
Frank chaired a session.
1-4 September.
Applied
Union
Pure
and
of
/
Symposium handbook.
of
Glaciers,
the
Hydrology
Cambridge,
Miscellaneous memorabilia.
on
7-13
Frank spoke on "The hydrology of the intergranular
Information re Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences Institute of
Macromolecular Chemistry.
Symposium
September.
veins in a temperate glacier" (with J.F. Nye).
transcript of Frank's contribution to the general discussion.
photocopy of Frank and Nye’s paper;
Letter from organisers;
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Invitations for 1969
Conference on The Chemistry of Extended Defects in Non-Metallic
Solids, Phoenix, AZ, 20-25 April.
Conference on Fundamental Aspects of Dislocation Theory, Spring
1967 (subsequently rearranged for 28 April -
2 May 1969).
International Conference on Growth and Characterization of
Electronic Materials, Chania, Crete, 1-14 June.
Gordon Conference on Physical Metallurgy,
July.
Seattle,
WA,
7-11
International
Properties and Microstructure,
August.
Conference on Quantitative Relations
Haifa,
Israel,”
27
between
1
July = -)
AEI Scientific Apparatus Ltd. Symposium on New Techniques in
Materials Analysis, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington,
1 October.
1970
British Polymer
Flexibility, Colchester, 7-9 January.
Physics Group Conference on Polymer
Chain
Invitation with letter of acceptance;
programme;
information.
Frank’s manuscript notes
Visit to USA and Canada, August-September.
Abstracts, some annotated by Frank;
on proceedings.
Programmes; list of participants; information; correspondence
re Soviet participation.
High Polymer Research Group Conference on Relaxation Phenomena
in Polymers, Moretonhampstead, Devon, 4-8 May.
lists of addresses.
Frank was invited to attend the Gordon Research Conference on
Physical Metallurgy, Tilton, NH, 24-28 August.
In advance of
the conference he visited Bell Telephone Laboratories at Murray
Hill,
NJ and GE's laboratory at Schenectady, and was invited
to IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
Institute
Hamilton, Ontario as Visiting Lecturer.
Research,
for
week
at
the
University,
spent
a
McMaster
Following
conference
Frank
the
Materials
Itineraries;
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Correspondence
participants etc.
Earth -
physicist".
the largest accessible specimen for
re
arrangements;
programmes ;
for Gordon conference.
igst
of
Frank spoke on "The
the solid-state
Correspondence with colleagues at other US research centres.
with
Correspondence
Visiting Lectureship;
"The
aligning polymer molecules".
colleagues
schedule;
Earth's*
“Mechanics
“the
of
at
McMaster
re
notice of Frank's lectures
for
University
“Processes
and
crust”
Invitations for 1970
Conference on the Yield Deformation and Fracture of Polymers,
Churchill College Cambridge, March/April.
Advanced
NATO
Institute
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 9-16 April.
Study
on
the
Moon
and
Planets,
Conference on Law, Science and Politics : Water Pollution and
its Effects considered as
a World Problem, Aberystwyth, 11-12
July.
T9711
with
programmes;
organisers;
7-11 September.
Correspondence
participants;
Frank's manuscript notes on proceedings.
Colloquium on Liquid Crystals, Pont-a-Mousson, Nancy, 27 June
-3, July..
Frank “chaired= the first session.
International Conference on the Science and Technology of Iron
and Steel, Tokyo,
draft of Address.
29
Frank delivered the Opening Address.
International
September -
Information;
Topography,
1 October.
Symposium
Bristol,
on
X-ray
lists
of
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Invitations for 19/71
Institute of Science Technology meetings, Bristol, April-May.
Society of Metals Science Japan, International Conference on
the Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, Kyoto, 15-20 August.
Exeter University discussion meeting on Indentation Hardness
of Solids, 23-24 September.
1972
Europhysics Conference on Disclinations, Aussois, France, 21-
23 June.
Frank was joint organiser with M. Kleman and chaired
the first session.
Correspondence with Kleman and possible participants, and with
institutions and companies re funding, 1971-72.
3 forders:
Programme; list of participants; disclination bibliographies;
Frank’s manuscript notes.
Abstracts.
Invitations for 1972
Gordon Research Conference on Polymer Plastics, Andover, NH,
26-30 June.
[Soviet] All-Union Conference on Crystal Growth, Tsakhkadzor,
Armenia, 16-23 September.
a paper”.
Institute
Plastics
Deformation
Cambridge, 26-29 March.
Press notice;
is annotated by Frank "I want to go.
invitations to sum up proceedings.
The notice
I don’t expect to offer
Yield,
College
Conference
on
2nd
International
Churchill
1973
and
Fracture
of
Polymers,
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Fraehk
Invitations for 1973
Israel Association of Growth of Crystals and Thin Films 4th
Annual Meeting, Bar Ilan University, 4 January.
International
Interaction with
Zakopane, Poland, 18-30 June.
School
other
Summer
the
on
kind
Point
of
Defects
and
their
Imperfections,
Lattice
lst European Crystallographic Meeting, Bordeaux, 5-8 September.
1974
Symposium on Dissociation of Dislocations and Associated Two-
dimensional
on
Frank
Mechanical Properties, Beaune, France, 9-12 September.
was a member of the Advisory Committee.
emphasis
Defects,
effects
their
with
on
Correspondence with organisers;
of participants.
information circular;
list
Abstracts.
1975
on
to
the
Circulars;
“Snow
Crystals"
review
paper
.L01-H.105
6 September.
abstract of Frank’s contribution.
NATO Advanced Study Institute on Surface Effects in Crystal
Plasticity, Hohegeiss, FRG,
Frank delivered
the concluding Summary Lecture (Bibliog.
5-14 September.
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 16th General
Frank delivered
Assembly, Grenoble, 25 August -
a
International
Symposium on Snow and Ice Crystals held under the auspices of
the General Assembly.
Abstracts.
correspondence re arrangements.
list of participants.
Information;
programme;
Invitation;
133).
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A4 notepad used by Frank for notes on proceedings.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of Frank’s lecture.
Invitations for 1975
2nd Liquid Crystal Forum, Leeds, 5-6 April.
L'Association
conference, Beaune, France, 25-27 May.
Bourguignonne
des
Societées
Savantes
annual
Institution of Metallurgists autumn review course on Innovation
Management in Metallurgy, Bristol, 31 October -
2 November.
European
Applications, Les Arcs, France, 15-18 December.
Conference
Physics
Smectics
on
of
and _
their
1976
Royal Astronomical Society Discussion Meeting on Solid State
Physics and Geophysics, London, 12 November.
Frank spoke "On
the significance of Gruneisen'’s Gamma".
See D.122, D.123.
H.108
ES U7
on Crystal
Growth,
Zurich,
12-18
15 February -
15 July.
Visit to Paris,
Invitation for 1976
Programme and brief correspondence.
First European Conference
September.
material re lectures.
In 1975 J. Friedel invited Frank to spend a few months after
the Laboratoire de Physique des
his retirement working at
Solides, Universite de Paris-Sud.
Whilst in France Frank gave
lectures
Cristallographie
("Consequences of pressure changes in the interior of the Earth
caused by differentiation of the upper mantle"), Paris, 4 May;
Centre de Recherches sur
24
Laboratoire de Physique des Solides ("Some examples of
May;
and
domains
new
nematic thin films"), 2 June.
Correspondence and papers re visit;
les Macromolecules, Strasbourg,
in magnetic bubble
Association
phase
states:
to
Francaise
de
plates
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Royal Astronomical Society UK Geophysical Assembly, Edinburgh,
Pet CAPLL AL:
Advance notices;
"If
in UK
I would wish to attend".
copy of registration form filled in by Frank
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Geophysics Colloquium,
June.
Frank spoke on coupling between mantle and core.
22
Brief correspondence only.
External Examiner (K.11-K.17).
Frank was visiting Newcastle as
6th Europhysics Conference on Macromolecular Physics:
Phase
Transitions in Bulk Polymers, Varna, Bulgaria, 26-29 September.
Frank was
"Phase
on
transitions".
the Scientific Committee and
spoke
on
Invitation;
paper "Corrected:
correspondence.
draft of Frank’s
related
correspondence with organisers;
as delivered Varna 26 Sept. 1977";
Conference handbook.
meeting
the Physics
Dielectrics
on
Anisotropic
and
Polymer Mechanics,
invitations. for 1977
Dielectrics
Cambridge, 29-31 March.
Society
Symposium on Crystallinity Control
Chicago, 28 August -
2 September.
International Glaciological Society symposium on
and Chemistry of Ice, Cambridge, 11-16 September.
5th [Soviet] All-Union Meeting on Crystal Growth, Tbilisi, 16-
20 September.
December.
Meeting on physical aspects of polymer science, Lyons, 27-28
October.
International
Conference
on
Metaphor,
Melbourne,
15-19
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1978
7th International Liquid Crystal Congress, Bordeaux, 3-7 July.
Frank was on the Scientific Committee of the Congress.
Brief correspondence re meetings of the Scientific Committee.
Visit to USA, July-August.
for consultancy work (see G.117, G.118).
Frank was invited to IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center,
NJ,
While in the US
4th American Conference on Crystal Growth,
he attended the
Gaithersburg,
Crystal
Growth Award of
the American Association for Crystal Growth.
to receive
first
16-20
July
the
MD,
Annotated conference brochure;
award;
brief correspondence from American colleagues.
press release announcing the
Europhysics
Physics:
8th
Structural
Biological
Macromolecules (including methods of examination), Bristol, 19-
22 September.
Macromolecular
Conference
Synthetic
Aspects
common
and
on
to
Information;
programme;
booking form "sent 6/1/78".
re
5-8
and
Brig,
notes
Switzerland,
arrangements;
Invitations for 1978
the growth of snow crystals".
programme ;
For photographs of Frank
Correspondence
unidentified photographs and graphs.
taken during meeting see A.97.
Conference on Physics and Applications of Smectic and Lyotropic
Liquid Crystals, Madonna di Campiglio, Italy,
Sektion fur Kristallwachstum der Schweizer Gesellschaft fur
Kristallographie
meeting,
October.
Frank spoke on "Theory of
April.
NATO Advanced Study Institute on the Mechanism of Continental
7
Drift and Plate Tectonics, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 29 March -
9-13 January.
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1979
Gordon Research Conference on Crystal Growth, Santa Barbara,
CA,
Frank chaired the guest presentation.
15-19 January.
Invitation;
programme ;
remarks for evening session ...
Mandell";
correspondence with organisers and colleagues;
of "Introductory
list.
in particular, introducing Dr.
manuscript notes etc.
of participants:
draft
NATO Advanced Study Institute on Mechanism of Continental Drift
and Plate Tectonics, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 27 March -
10 April.
Frank spoke on "The effect of anisotropy on conduction in the
mantle".
Preliminary programme;
proceedings;
calculations.
draft of Frank's paper;
brief correspondence re publication of
manuscript notes and
Royal Astronomical Society meeting, University College Durhan,
10-11 April.
Programme and menu only.
Not otherwise documented.
10-15
invitation to
Letter and telegrams re arrangements;
be Guest of Honour and to chair a session.
Initial invitation, annotated "Answered 'Yes'";
Seminar, Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris, 8 November.
2nd European Conference on Crystal Growth, Lancaster,
September.
letter arising.
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1979-80
H.125-H.138
Visit to India, December-February.
as
Raman Visiting
The
Indian Academy of Sciences originally invited Frank to
India
Dorothy
Hodgkin, who had declined the Academy's 1977 invitation, was
thought
Hodgkin
indicated her willingness to visit India and Frank's visit was
postponed for a year.
Subsequently
unavailable.
Professor
again
when
1978
for
to
be
Although as Visiting Professor he was based at the Raman
Research Institute, Bangalore, Frank was able to visit Indian
research centres and colleagues in Madras, Kalpakkam, Delhi,
Frank also attended a liquid
New Delhi, Kanpur and Mysore.
crystals conference arranged to coincide with his arrival at
which he gave the opening lecture.
Correspondence and Frank’s notes re
(including postponement), 1978-79.
arrangements for visit
International Conference on Liquid Crystals, Raman Research
Institute, 3-8 December.
Frank spoke on "What is the director
of
a liquid crystal?"
copy of
Correspondence with S. Chandrasekhar re arrangements;
Frank’s contribution;
copy of paper by W. Helfrich delivered
at the conference with letter from Frank suggesting amendments.
Conference handbook.
Information on Institute activities.
Raman Research Institute, Bangalore.
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Crystallographic Computing by Sir John Kendrew.
Brief correspondence re visit to Physics Department;
criticisms of
rebuttals;
including accounts by Frank and his wife
Inauguration
Frank’s
their
16 February,
the
on
invitation to
School
Institute members,
International
an article by
material
eclipse,
Winter
re
total
solar
with
of
the
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Madras, 9-11 January.
Frank visited the Reactor Research Centre, Kalpakkam, where he
gave a seminar on "Personal reminiscences of
the history of
crystal defects", the British Centre where he spoke on "Prince
Rupert's Drops", and the Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
Brief correspondence;
notices for Frank's talks.
National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi,
13-20 January.
delivered
on
Frank
"Interaction between scientific disciplines:
can study of
liquid crystals teach anything of importance for Geophysics?"
Krishnan
Memorial
Lecture
14th
the
manuscript and typescript drafts
Correspondence re lecture;
of lecture with calculations and lists of references found with
them.
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 20-27 January.
Frank spoke at a colloquium on "Consequences of pressure change
in Earth’s interior resulting from the differentiation of the
Upper Mantle" and gave an Institute Lecture on "Prince Rupert's
Drops:
a long chapter in the history of materials science".
H.136-H.138
the history of
programme for Frank's visit.
Brief correspondence only.
Correspondence re arrangements;
Solid-State Physics Laboratory, Delhi, January.
Frank offered to speak on "Recollections of
crystal defect studies".
Invitations to visit Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
and the Physical Society, Sir Theagaraya College, Madras.
3 folders.
Photographs
Kabbaldurga,
communication, 9 September 1989).
Miscellaneous memorabilia.
charnockite
margins
the
February
at
private
and
slides
of
visited
25
CEL G. Foe
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1980
NATO Advanced
Houches,
course on
session on smectics.
France,
-
Institute
Study
28
Les
short
the history of defects and organised an informal
Frank gave
30 August.
Defects,
Physics
July
on
of
a
Correspondence with organisers re arrangements;
background material;
manuscript notes and figures.
programmes;
H.140-H.142
Visit to USA,
17 October -
15 November.
Frank was initially invited to attend the Annual Meeting of the
US
formal
recognition as
Academy
a Foreign Associate Member (A.27, F.194).
Engineering
National
receive
to
of
In the US Frank also served as consultant for IBM at the
(see
York,
Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
G.119,
visited
Massachusetts and Colorado.
research
centres
G.120)
New
and
in
Frank's
itineraries.
manuscript
notes
re
arrangements,
including
National
Washington, DC,
Academy
29-30 October.
of
Engineering
16th
Annual
Meeting,
At
CO,
each
spoke
programme, etc.
Invitations for 1980
Boulder,
November.
Research,
12-15
31 October;
8-12
Correspondence re arrangements;
Correspondence with colleagues re visits to National Bureau of
National Center for
Standards, Washington, DC,
Harvard
November;
Weather
University,
Frank
on
"Definitions of supersaturation".
27 September.
Post Office Research Centre, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, April
or May.
Gordon Research Conference on Crystal Growth, Holderness, NH,
14-18 July.
4th International Conference on Magnetic Bubbles, Tokyo, 24-
Reading University Physics Department colloquium, February.
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United Nations Association seminar on the need for disarmament,
Bristol, 17 October.
Frank was chairman.
Brief correspondence re arrangements.
Invitations for 1981
Workshop on Nucleation, Les Houches, France,
18-28 February.
Conference on High Temperature Plasticity, Les Houches, 19-27
March.
NATO Advanced Study Institute on Early Evolution of the Planets
and their Atmospheres, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 23 March -
3 April.
Gordon Conference on Liquid Crystals,
July.
New London,
NH,
6-10
International Association of Seismology and Physics of
the
Earth's Interior symposium on the Properties of Materials at
High Pressures and Temperatures, London, Ontario, July.
1982
programme ;
general
Society,
Manchester,
vst
.of : participants;
22-25 March.
Correspondence
Physica Scripta including proof with Frank’s corrections.
listed in Bibliog.
publication
contribution
Frank’s
re
of
the conference dinner.
Invitation;
information.
2nd General Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the
European Physical
Frank
spoke at
itineraries.
Instituto di
Frank visited Spain at
the Autonomous University of
Fisica
He
Madrid, supported by the Royal Society European Programme.
also
the
Universities of Seville and Saragossa, and the University of
the Basque Countries, Bilbao.
Invitation;
autobiographical
note by Frank introducing a paper on "Crystal growth without
dislocations";
correspondence re arrangements;
Visit. to Spain 43 April -
the invitation of
Complutense
del
Estado
Solido
of
University
Madrid,
visited
the
in
Not
3 May.
the
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Frank's
correspondence arising from the visit.
"Report.«-0n
oR sStE. Bo visit
tan.
sto.
Spain
and
Visit to USA,
July.
Frank attended a Gordon Research Conference and served as
consultant for IBM (G.121, G.122).
Vermont.
a
He also visited friends in
Gordon Research Conference on Crystal Growth, Plymouth, NH,
12-Lo:
without
dislocations".
"Crystal
growth
Frank
spoke
July;
on
Correspondence
participants;
of participants with key,
re
arrangements;
background information.
see A.9/.
programme;
OF
For group photograph
LSet
Correspondence with H. Brooks, Bread Loaf, VT,
Judy’,
re visit,
7-11
Invitation for 1982
Lecture course on Polymer Science, University of Massachusetts.
on
1983
Brief correspondence re arrangements.
Maison Francaise d’Oxford Colloquium on Technical
French and English, 28-29 March.
Cambridge University Department of Metallurgy and Materials
Science colloquium, 28 February.
November.
International
6th
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 22-26 August.
Workshop on Clays and the Origin of Life, Glasgow, 18-24 July.
Correspondence
information.
2nd International Seminar
Invitations for 1983
the Living State,
arrangements;
background
programme;
New Delhi,
Institute
Terms
in
Summer
in
Surface
Science,
re
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1984
H.156-H.158
Eshelby Memorial Symposium on Fundamentals of Deformation and
Fracture, Sheffield, 2-5 April.
Frank was a General Consultant
to the Symposium’s Advisory Board.
Correspondence,
(programme, abstracts etc.).
material
and
sent
to
Frank
as
Consultant
3 folders.
10th International Liquid Crystal Conference, York, 15-21 July.
Frank gave the Introduction.
extensively
Draft of first paragraphs of
a
annotated reprint of Frank's “Introductory remarks" made at
1983 Royal Society meeting on Liquid Crystals (not otherwise
documented);
International Liquid Crystal Song.
the Introduction;
Workshop
European
Composites, Termas de Vimeiro, Portugal, 4-5 September.
spoke on "Orientation mapping", Bibliog. 142.
Polymers
Polymer
and
NDE
on
of
Matrix
Frank
Correspondence
participants;
Upstill
atmospheric optics we were discussing in Portugal".
arrangements;
of references from C.
programme ;
list
re
Fists
"for
of
the
1985
13-24
France,
Crystals,
Discussion
Les Houches,
Invitation for 1984
Workshop on Colloidal
February.
International
Technology, Rolduc Abbey, Limburg, Holland, 14-18 April.
was a member of the Meeting’s Advisory Committee.
Itinerary only.
Correspondence from A. Keller and organisers.
Visit