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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] .
May 17, 2024 · James Franck 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. Franck studied at the universities of Heidelberg.
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May 21, 2011 · James Franck was a German-born American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in 1925 for his work on the kinetics of electrons, atoms, and molecules. He also made contributions to photochemistry, photosynthesis, and the ethical use of science.
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”.
May 23, 2018 · Learn about James Franck, a German-born physicist who proved Niels Bohr's theory of atomic quantization and won the 1925 Nobel Prize. Find out his biography, achievements, and views on the atomic bomb.
James Franck was born in Hamburg on 26 August 1882, the son of Jacob and Rebecca Franck. In his school, a sound training in classics was regarded as the principal aim of education, and it was largely due to Franck’s lack of interest in languages that he was considered to be a boy of little promise. At an early age he earned for himself the ...
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.
