James
Franck
Born in Hamburg, Germany
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Ingrid (Josephson) Franck
— married
23 Dec 1907 in Berlin, Germany
Husband of
Hertha Sponer
— married
29 Jun 1946 in Durham, North Carolina, United States
Father of
Dagmar (Franck) von Hippel and Elisabeth Franck
Died
at age 81
in Göttingen, Niedersachsen, Deutschland
Profile last modified
| Created 22 Aug 2018
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Biography
James was born in Hamburg, Germany, on 26 August 1882, into a Jewish family, the second child and first son of Jacob Franck, a banker, and his wife Rebecca née Nachum Drucker. He passed away in 1964.
James Franck was a physicist. He was already an important academic in Germany when the Nazis took power, after which he moved to Denmark and then the United States.[1][2]
Sources
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "James Franck," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Franck&oldid=880665923 (accessed February 4, 2019).
- ↑ James Franck – Biographical. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2019. Mon. 4 Feb 2019. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1925/franck/biographical/>
- ↑ Unsourced family tree handed down to Thomas Dowding.
- "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP95-4KPJ), James Franck and Hertha Sponer, 29 Jun 1946; citing Durham, North Carolina, United States, p. , North Carolina State Archives Division of Archives and History; FHL microfilm .
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