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The Emergence of Modern Nucleation Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

John W. Cahn
John W. Cahn*
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Institute for Materials Science and Engineering National Bureau of Standards Gaithersburg, MD 20899
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Abstract

A series of important papers by David Turnbull and his collaborators in the late 1940's and early 1950's laid the experimental and theoretical foundation of modern nucleation theory. The elegance, versatility, and generality of the phenomenological approach, coupled with brilliant and insightful experimental confirmation, sparked widespread application which continues today. Much of David Turnbull's subsequent work in other subjects grew directly or indirectly from this work.

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