Frank

Philipp Frank

Born: 20 March 1884 in Vienna, Austria
Died: 21 July 1966 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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Philipp Frank obtained a doctorate from Vienna working under Boltzmann. He worked on a wide range of topics, calculus of variations, Fourier series, function spaces, geometrical optics, Schrödinger wave mechanics and relativity.

Frank was a life long friend of both von Mises and Einstein. He loved philosophy of science and his ideas influenced Einstein. On Einstein's recommendation he succeeded him to the chair of theoretical physics in Prague. In 1947 Frank wrote an excellent biography Einstein: His Life and Times .

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. In memory of Philipp Frank, Philosophy of Science 35 (1968), 1-5. 
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