Thomas Erle Faber (25 April 192727 July 2004) was a physicist and Publishing, and he was a university lecturer at Cambridge for 35 years.
Early life and education
Thomas Faber was born in
London in 1927, the son of Sir
Geoffrey Faber, a don at All Souls College,
Oxford, and also the co-founder of the publishing house that later became Faber and Faber.
His maternal grandfather, Sir Erle Richards, was the former Chichele Professor of Public International Law, Oxford.
Tom studied at the
Dragon School, Oxford and
Oundle School. He won a scholarship to Trinity College,
Cambridge in 1945, where he studied
Natural science with a specialty in physics. He moved to Corpus Christi College in 1953, where he became a Fellow, a position he held for the rest of his life.
Career
He was a lecturer in physics at the University of Cambridge from 1959 until 1993.
He was a Life Fellow, Praelector Rhetoricus from 1956 until 1962, and the Treasurer from 1963 until 1975 at Corpus Christi College.
Research
Faber's academic research focused on three areas; superconductivity,
and
. He worked together with
John Ziman to develop a theory of liquid metals.
Personal life
Faber had two sons and two daughters from his first wife, Penelope Morton, who died in 1983; and one son and one daughter with his second wife Elisabeth van Houts, whom he married in 1986.
