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James Franck

1882 - 1964

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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". He completed his doctorate in 1906 and his habilitation in 1911 at the Frederick William University in Berlin, where he lectured and taught until 1918, having reached the position of professor extraordinarius. He served as a volunteer in the German Army during World War I. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Franck has received more than 386,154 page views. His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 78 in 2019). James Franck is the 120th most popular physicist (down from 94th in 2019), the 388th most popular biography from Germany (down from 330th in 2019) and the 17th most popular German Physicist.

James Franck is most famous for his work with Max Planck in the field of quantum physics.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, James Franck ranks 120 out of 851. Before him are Joseph Henry, Walter Houser Brattain, Arnold Sommerfeld, Paul Langevin, Joseph von Fraunhofer, and K. Alex Müller. After him are Isamu Akasaki, Javier Solana, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Julius von Mayer, C. V. Raman, and Val Logsdon Fitch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, James Franck ranks 28. Before him are Princess Margaret of Connaught, Umberto Boccioni, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, Zoltán Kodály, Lili Elbe, and Rodolfo Graziani. After him are Edward Hopper, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, Charles Ponzi, Emmerich Kálmán, Hans Geiger, and A. A. Milne. Among people deceased in 1964, James Franck ranks 12. Before him are Victor Francis Hess, Norbert Wiener, Leo Szilard, Ian Fleming, Rachel Carson, and Frans Eemil Sillanpää. After him are Vasily Grossman, Gerhard Domagk, Palmiro Togliatti, Gerrit Rietveld, Karl Polanyi, and Hans von Euler-Chelpin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, James Franck ranks 388 out of 7,253. Before him are Alfred von Schlieffen (1833), Alexandra Feodorovna (1798), Pina Bausch (1940), Christopher of Bavaria (1416), Hermann Fegelein (1906), and Adolf Windaus (1876). After him are Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780), Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1864), Leo von Caprivi (1831), Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1911), Frederica of Hanover (1917), and Franz Bopp (1791).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, James Franck ranks 17. Before him are Johannes Stark (1874), Otto von Guericke (1602), Carl Zeiss (1816), Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804), Ernst Ruska (1906), and Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787). After him are Julius von Mayer (1814), Arno Allan Penzias (1933), Ernst Abbe (1840), Walther Bothe (1891), Rudolf Mössbauer (1929), and George Paget Thomson (1892).

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