James Franck
James Franck
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a German physicist who won the 1925 Nobel Prize for Physics with Gustav Hertz "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom".
Born
26 August 1882 Hamburg, German Empire
Died
21 May 1964 (aged 81) Göttingen, West Germany
Nationality
German
Known for
Franck–Condon principle Franck–Hertz experiment Franck Report
Fields
Physics
Alma mater
University of Heidelberg University of Berlin
Awards
Iron Cross, 2nd Class (1915) Hanseatic Cross (1916) Iron Cross, 1st Class (1918) Nobel Prize for Physics (1925) Max Planck Medal (1951) Rumford Prize (1955) Fellow of the Royal Society (1964)
Institutions
University of Berlin University of Göttingen Johns Hopkins University University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory
adultbasic
Germany
Citizenship
Germany United States
Doctoral advisor
Emil Gabriel Warburg Paul Drude
Doctoral students
Wilhelm Hanle Arthur R. von Hippel Theodore Puck
era
1800+
Thesis
Über die Beweglichkeit der Ladungsträger der Spitzenentladung (1906)