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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 21, 2011 · He was one of the first who openly demonstrated against the issue of racial laws in Germany, and he resigned from the University of Göttingen in 1933 as a personal protest against the Nazi regime under Adolf Hitler.
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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James Franck was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom. He conducted an experiment with Gustav Hertz that supported Niels Bohr’s theory on the structure of the 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.
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.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1925 was awarded jointly to James Franck and Gustav Ludwig Hertz "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom". James Franck and Gustav Hertz received their Nobel Prize one year later, in 1926.
