James Franck
James Franck was a German–American atomic physicist who shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gustav Hertz "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom."
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Background
- Born in
- Hamburg
- Educated at
- Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinWilhelm-GymnasiumHeidelberg University
- Awards
- 🏆 Rumford Prize🏆 Foreign Member of the Royal Society
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Paul Drude🎓 Emil Warburg
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Fritz Houtermans📖 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz📖 Wilhelm Hanle
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1882
Born
Birth1964
Died
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