University of Berlin University of Göttingen Johns Hopkins University University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory
Thesis
Über die Beweglichkeit der Ladungsträger der Spitzenentladung (1906)
Doctoral advisor
Emil Gabriel Warburg Paul Drude
Doctoral students
Wilhelm Hanle Arthur R. von Hippel Theodore Puck
James Franck (German pronunciation:[ˈdʒɛɪ̯msˈfʁaŋk]ⓘ; 26 August 1882 – 21 May 1964) was 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".[1] He completed his doctorate in 1906 and his habilitation in 1911 at the Frederick William University in Berlin, where he lectured and taught until 1918, having reached the position of professor extraordinarius. He served as a volunteer in the German Army during World War I. He was seriously injured in 1917 in a gas attack and was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class.
Franck became the Head of the Physics Division of the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft for Physical Chemistry. In 1920, Franck became professor ordinarius of experimental physics and Director of the Second Institute for Experimental Physics at the University of Göttingen. While there he worked on quantum physics with Max Born, who was Director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics. His work included the Franck–Hertz experiment, an important confirmation of the Bohr model of the atom. He promoted the careers of women in physics, notably Lise Meitner, Hertha Sponer and Hilde Levi.
After the Nazi Party came to power in Germany in 1933, Franck resigned his post in protest against the dismissal of fellow academics. He assisted Frederick Lindemann in helping dismissed Jewish scientists find work overseas, before he left Germany in November 1933. After a year at the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark, he moved to the United States, where he worked at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and then the University of Chicago. During this period he became interested in photosynthesis.
Franck participated in the Manhattan Project during World War II as Director of the Chemistry Division of the Metallurgical Laboratory. He was also the chairman of the Committee on Political and Social Problems regarding the atomic bomb, which is best known for the compilation of the Franck Report, which recommended that the atomic bombs not be used on the Japanese cities without warning.
^"The Nobel Prize in Physics 1925". The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
JamesFranck (German pronunciation: [ˈdʒɛɪ̯ms ˈfʁaŋk] ; 26 August 1882 – 21 May 1964) was a German physicist who won the 1925 Nobel Prize for Physics with...
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around the world. Those that he helped included Guido Beck, Felix Bloch, JamesFranck, George de Hevesy, Otto Frisch, Hilde Levi, Lise Meitner, George Placzek...
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dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of German physicists Max von Laue (1914) and JamesFranck (1925) in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from confiscating them. The...
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became friends with the physicists there, including Otto von Baeyer [de], JamesFranck, Gustav Hertz, Robert Pohl, Max Planck, Peter Pringsheim [de] and Wilhelm...
this time that Hertz and JamesFranck performed experiments on inelastic electron collisions in gases, known as the Franck–Hertz experiments, and for...
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other scientists to be transferred to the unit. Future Nobel laureates JamesFranck, Gustav Hertz, and Otto Hahn served as gas troops in Haber's unit.: 136–138 ...
illustrious past members of the Institute belong Herbert Freundlich, JamesFranck, Paul Friedlander, Rudolf Ladenburg, Michael Polanyi, Eugene Wigner,...
of a molecule are affected by its surroundings. First introduced by JamesFranck and Eugene Rabinowitch in 1934, the cage effect suggests that instead...
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reason, suddenly stopped working, although Pauli was in fact absent. JamesFranck, the director of the institute, reported the incident to his colleague...
Wien and at the Georg-August University of Göttingen with Max Born and JamesFranck and mathematics with David Hilbert. He received his doctorate in 1923...
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