James Franck Ph.D.
James Franck Ph.D.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1925
Co-nobelist Gustav Hertz
Drawing: Newton Llorente
Name: James Franck
Birth: 26 August 1882, Hamburg, Germany
Death: 21 May 1964, Göttingen, West Germany (now Germany)
Institution: Goettingen University, Göttingen, Germany
Award: “for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom”
Subject: atomic physics
Portion of Cash: 1/2
Award: “for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom”
Biography
A biographical memoir by Stuart A. Rice, National Academy of Sciences bio 19 pages, 28 pages total.