| Notes: | Physicist. Born, Hamburg, Germany, 1882. Professor of Experimental Physics and Director of the Second Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Göttingen, 1920-1933. Speyer Professor of Physics, Johns Hopkins University, 1933, 1935-1938. Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, 1938-1947. Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago, 1947-1964. Director and later, director emeritus, Photosynthesis Research Group, University of Chicago, 1947-1956. Director of the Chemistry Division of the Metallurgical Laboratory, University of Chicago, 1942-1943. Nobel Prize in physics, 1925. Died, Germany, 1964.
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| Summary: | Contains personal and professional correspondence; manuscripts of speeches, articles, and other publications; laboratory notes; memoranda; sound recordings and photographs; personal documents; newspaper clippings; biographies and obituaries of Franck and others; medals, honorary degrees, and certificates. Correspondents include Niels Bohr, Max Born, Richard Courant, Paul Ehrenfest, Albert Einstein, Philip Elkan, Hans Gaffron, Fritz Haber, Otto Hahn, Gustav Hertz, Helmut Hertz, Walter Lochte-Holtgreven, Lise Meitner, Otto Oldenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, Max Planck, Robert Pohl, Eugene Rabinowitch, Otto Stern, Edward Teller, Max von Laue, Wilhelm Westphal, and others. Topics relate to laboratory data from the Franck-Hertz experiments, Franck's work on photosynthesis, the impact of politics and war on science, Franck's role in helping scientists expelled from Nazi Germany, the atomic scientists' movement regarding the development and control of atomic energy, and the Franck Memorial Symposium. Also contains the "Franck Report" of June 1945, in which Franck and other Chicago scientists urged that the atomic bomb be demonstrated to the Japanese before deployment. Papers contain no scientific manuscripts or notebooks from Franck's tenure at the University of Göttingen (1921-1933).
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