Fig 6.
Dr. Alan Arnold Griffith, FRS 1893-1963
Photo: (c) The Royal Society
Dr. Griffith worked at the Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough. His pioneering work on the rupture and flow of solids laid the foundations for the science of Fracture Mechanics on which the growth of cracks in fatigue is now understood. (Reproduced by kind permission of the Royal Society)