# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-tabor
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:52:54.490Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/david-tabor"
name: "David Tabor"
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description: "David Tabor (né Tabrisky), FRS was a British physicist who was an early pioneer of tribology, the study of frictional interaction between surfaces, and well known for his influential undergraduate textbook Gases, Liquids and Solids."
tagline: "British physicist (1913–2005)"
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birthDate: "1913-10-23"
deathDate: "2005-11-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump