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James Franck ( German pronunciation: [ˈdʒɛɪ̯ms ˈfʁaŋk] ⓘ; 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 ...
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Mar 4, 2024 · James Franck (born Aug. 26, 1882, Hamburg, Ger.—died May 21, 1964, Göttingen, W.Ger.) was a German-born American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1925 with Gustav Hertz for research on the excitation and ionization of atoms by electron bombardment that verified the quantized nature of energy transfer.
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May 23, 2018 · James Franck. James Franck (1882-1964) studied the effects of an electron upon an atom. Along with Gustave Hertz, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1925.. James Franck was a physicist whose experimental work with atoms and electrons proved Niels Bohr's theory that atoms are quantized—that they transmit and absorb energy in discrete quantities or packages.
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James Franck (1882-1964) was a German physicist and winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize for Physics. During the Manhattan Project, Franck served as Director of the Chemistry Division of the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory. He also served as chairman of the Committee on Political and Social Problems regarding the…
James Franck. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1925. Born: 26 August 1882, Hamburg, Germany. Died: 21 May 1964, Göttingen, West Germany (now Germany) Affiliation at the time of the award: Goettingen University, Göttingen, Germany. Prize motivation: “for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom”.
James Franck was born on August 26th, 1882 in Hamburg, Germany. He studied at the Frederick William University in Berlin, where he received a PhD in 1906. Franck obtained the "venia legend" for physics to lecture at the University of Berlin, where he stayed until 1918.
Jun 1, 2010 · James Franck was one of Germany’s leading experimental physicists in the 1920s and early 1930s. He is remembered by physicists today primarily because of the Franck-Hertz experiment, for which he and Gustav Hertz were awarded the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics, and for the Franck-Condon principle. Franck left Germany in 1933.
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