James Franck at Göttingen, ca. 1971.

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James Franck at Göttingen, ca. 1971.

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Comments by Otto Oldenberg, who worked with Frank in Gottingen from 1922-1930, on Franck's style of thought and its impact on his work. Oldenberg characterizes Frank as a theorist who was adept at designing simple experiments to address theoretical questions, but who himself was not particularly interested in the experimental details.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Franck, James, 1882-1964

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James Franck was born August 26, 1882 in Hamburg, Germany, where his Sephardic Jewish forebears had lived for over two hundred years [Box 20, folder 58 and Box 21, folder 1]. His father, Jacob Franck, was a banker who wanted his son to follow a business career in keeping with family tradition. From childhood on, however, James could imagine no other life but science. An X-ray photograph illustrates his fascination with new discoveries in physics. He had already read of Roentgen's X...

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