The University of Chicago named the James Franck Institute after him
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James Franck
James Franck was a German–American physicist who shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gustav Hertz "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom."
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Born 26 August 1882 · Died 21 May 1964 · Q57066
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1967· 1 entry
1964· 2 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1964).
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Died 1964-05-21.
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1961· 1 entry
Awarded Dannie Heineman Prize (1961).
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1955· 1 entry
Awarded Rumford Prize (1955).
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1951· 1 entry
Won Max Planck Medal (1951).
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1947· 1 entry
Became professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, but continued to work there to tackle the problem of explaining the mechanism of photosynthesis
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1935· 1 entry
Franck moved to the United States, where he had accepted a professorship at Johns Hopkins University
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1933· 1 entry
Franck resigned from his position at the University of Göttingen in protest against the dismissal of fellow colleagues
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1928· 1 entry
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1928).
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1925· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1925).
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1920· 3 entries
The University of Göttingen offered Max Born its Chair of Theoretical Physics, which had recently been vacated by Peter Debye
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Meitner and Franck arranged for him to come to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute to talk with the younger staff without the presence of the bonzen (bigwigs)
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Franck became professor ordinarius of experimental physics and Director of the Second Institute for Experimental Physics at the University of Göttingen
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1917· 2 entries
Awarded Iron Cross (1914), 1st class (1917).
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In a gas attack and was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class
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1916· 1 entry
Awarded Hanseatic Cross (Hamburg) (1916).
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1915· 1 entry
Awarded Iron Cross (1914), 2nd class (1915).
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1914· 1 entry
Franck teamed up with Hertz to perform an experiment to investigate fluorescence
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1907· 1 entry
But did not enjoy it, and soon returned to the University of Berlin
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1906· 1 entry
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
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1901· 1 entry
Franck entered the University of Heidelberg, as it had a renowned law school
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1891· 1 entry
Franck enrolled at the Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hamburg, which was then a boys-only school
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1882· 1 entry
Born 1882-08-26.
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