James Franck
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James Franck (August 26, 1882 - May 21, 1964) was a German-born physicist and Nobel laureate.
He was born in Hamburg, and did research in the United States regarding quantum physics. For this work, he received the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was the chairman of the Committee on Political and Social Problems regarding the atomic bomb; the committee consisted of himself and other scientists at the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago, including Donald J. Hughes, J. J. Nickson, Eugene Rabinowitch, Glenn T. Seaborg, J. C. Stearns and Leo Szilard. The committee is most known for the compilation of the Franck Report, finished on June 11, 1945, which was a summary of the problems regarding the military application of the Atomic Bomb.
Further information
- http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1925/franck-bio.html biography, on the Nobel website
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