James Franck - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1925
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James Franck

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1925
for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom
Together with: Gustav Ludwig Hertz
Citizenship
Weimar Republic Weimar Republic United States United States
Languages
English, German
date of birth
8/26/1882
place of birth
Hamburg
date of death
5/21/1964
place of death
Göttingen
Lived
81 years
member of
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 4/23/1964
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1937
  • German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
  • Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
  • Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Physical Society
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
educated at
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Heidelberg University
  • Wilhelm-Gymnasium
doctoral student
  • Fritz Houtermans
  • Heinz Maier-Leibnitz
  • Wilhelm Hanle
  • Wilhelm Hanle
  • Hans Kopfermann
  • Hans Kopfermann
  • Robert Leroy Platzman
  • Warren L. Butler
  • John Torrence Tate, Sr.
field of work
  • physics
occupation
  • physicist
  • chemist
  • university teacher
employer
  • University of Chicago
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • University of Göttingen
  • Johns Hopkins University
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