Multiple choice

Who coined the term 'dislocation'?

  1. M.Calvin

  2. Sir Frederick Charles Frank

  3. Wallace Carothers

  4. Thomas Robert Cech
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Explanation

The presence of dislocations strongly influences many of the properties of materials. This theory was originally developed by Vito Volterra in 1905, but the term 'dislocation' was coined later by the late Professor Sir Frederick Charles Frank of the Physics Department at the University of Bristol.

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