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James Franck

1882 - 1964

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James Franck (German: [ˈdʒɛɪ̯ms ˈfʁaŋk] ; 26 August 1882 – 21 May 1964) was a German-American physicist who shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gustav Ludwig Hertz "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom". 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James Franck is the 134th most popular physicist (down from 120th in 2019), the 335th most popular biography from Germany (up from 388th in 2019) and the 20th most popular German Physicist.

James Franck is most famous for his work with Max Planck in the field of quantum physics.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, James Franck ranks 134 out of 851. Before him are William Rowan Hamilton, Arthur Compton, Simon van der Meer, James Rainwater, Carl Zeiss, and Hans Bethe. After him are Robert Coleman Richardson, Emilio Segrè, Emil Lenz, George Gamow, C. V. Raman, and Arno Allan Penzias.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, James Franck ranks 21. Before him are Percy Williams Bridgman, Abdullah I of Jordan, Kurt von Schleicher, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Melanie Klein, and Abd el-Krim. After him are Fiorello H. La Guardia, Edward Hopper, Zoltán Kodály, Lili Elbe, Getúlio Vargas, and Emmerich Kálmán. Among people deceased in 1964, James Franck ranks 9. Before him are Douglas MacArthur, Herbert Hoover, Victor Francis Hess, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Paul of Greece, and Hans von Euler-Chelpin. After him are Alma Mahler, Rachel Carson, Norbert Wiener, Gerhard Domagk, Ian Fleming, and Vasily Grossman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, James Franck ranks 335 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Ratzel (1844), Heinrich von Kleist (1777), Wilhelm Frick (1877), Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791), Gustav Stresemann (1878), and Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884). After him are Carol I of Romania (1839), Henry the Lion (1129), Klaus Schwab (1938), Prince Claus of the Netherlands (1926), Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1691), and Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (1868).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, James Franck ranks 20. Before him are J. Hans D. Jensen (1907), Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804), Walther Bothe (1891), Ernst Ruska (1906), Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787), and Carl Zeiss (1816). After him are Arno Allan Penzias (1933), Rudolf Mössbauer (1929), George Paget Thomson (1892), Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922), Gerd Binnig (1947), and Ernst Abbe (1840).

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