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Frank-Read Source A Frank-Read Source is a mechanism explaining the generation of multiple dislocations in specific well spaced slip planes in crystals when they are deformed. It was proposed by and named after Sir Charles Frank and Thornton Read. When a crystal is deformed slip is found to occur only on certain well spaced slip planes. Furthermore, it is found that in order for that slip to occur dislocations must be generated in the material. This implies that during deformation dislocations must be primarily generated in these planes. The Frank-Read Source is a mechanism to explain this phenomena. Cold working of metal increases number of dislocations by Frank-Read mechanism. Higher dislocation density increase yield strength and cause work hardening of metals. History Sir Charles Frank detailed the history of the discovery from his perspective in Proceedings of the Royal Society in 1980.[1] In 1950 Sir Charles Frank , who was then a research fellow in the physics department at the University of Bristol, visited the United States to participate in a conference on crystal plasticity in Pittsburgh. Sir Charles Frank arrived in the United States well in advance of the conference to spend time at a naval laboratory and to give a lecture at Cornell University. When during his travels in Pennsylvania Sir Charles Frank visited Pittsburgh he received a letter from a fellow scientist Jock Eshelby suggesting that he read a recent paper by Gunther Leibfried. Sir Charles Frank was supposed to board a train to Cornell to give his lecture at Cornell, but before departing for Cornell he went to the library at Carnegie Institute of Technology to obtain a copy of the paper. The library did not yet have the journal with Leibfrieds paper but the staff at the library believed that the journal could be in the recently arrived package from Germany. Sir Charles Frank decided to wait for the library to open the package which did indeed contain the journal. Upon reading the paper he took