The Nobel Prize in Physics 1926
Awarded on: 1926-11-11
"for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom"
Affiliations:
- Goettingen University – Göttingen, Germany
James Franck
Born: 1882-08-26 in Hamburg, Germany
Gender: male
Field: German–American atomic physicist (1882–1964)
Biography
James Franck was a German–American atomic 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".