James Franck

James Franck 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. He was seriously injured in 1917 in a gas attack and was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class.

James Franck was born in Hamburg, Germany, onAugust 1882, the second child and first son of Jacob Franck, a banker, and his wife Rebecca ne Nachum Drucker. He had an older sister, Paula, and a younger brother, Robert Bernard. His father was a devout and religious man, while his mother came from a family of rabbis. Franck attended primary school in Hamburg. Starting in 1891 he attended the WilhelmGymnasium, which was then a boysonly school.

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