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James Franck
Full Name of the recipient | James Franck |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physics |
Year of Award | 1925 |
Share in Award | 50.0% |
Award Shared with | Gustav Ludwig Hertz (50.0%) |
Motivation for the Award | for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | Goettingen University, Göttingen, Germany |
Place of Birth | Hamburg, Germany DEU |
Date of Birth | 26 August 1882 |
Age at the time of Award | 42 years |
Place of Death | Göttingen, West Germany DEU |
Date of Death | 21 May 1964 |