Jost Lemmerich. Aufrecht im Sturm der Zeit: Der Physiker James Franck 1882–1964. 362 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Diepholz/Stuttgart: Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, 2007. €28 (paper).

Isis ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 101 (4) ◽  
pp. 900-901
Author(s):  
Richard Beyler
Keyword(s):  
James Franck

James Franck and Gustav Hertz

JAMA ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 252 (11) ◽  
pp. 1426-1426
Author(s):  
M. A. Shampo
Keyword(s):  
James Franck

Professor James Franck

1964 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 389
Author(s):  
Jerome L. Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
James Franck

scholarly journals JAMES FRANCK

1964 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
pp. 324-334
Author(s):  
Max Born ◽  
Wilhelm H. Westphal
Keyword(s):  
James Franck

James Franck

1952 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 117-119
Author(s):  
Peter Pringsheim
Keyword(s):  
James Franck

scholarly journals FRITZ HENNING 75 Jahre/JAMES FRANCK 70 Jahre

1952 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 410-411
Author(s):  
S. Valentiner ◽  
Hans Kopfermann
Keyword(s):  
James Franck

April 1915: Five future Nobel Prize–winners inaugurate weapons of mass destruction and the academic–industrial–military complex

2004 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. van Der Kloot
Keyword(s):  
Weapons Of Mass Destruction ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
James Franck ◽  
Nobel Laureates ◽  
Military Unit ◽  
Fritz Haber ◽  
Richard Willstätter ◽  
Trench Warfare ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Great War

Poison gas warfare was initiated in the Great War by a German military unit that included five future Nobel laureates: James Franck, Fritz Haber, Otto Hahn, Gustav Hertz and Walther Nernst. It was Haber's idea to use poison gas. To implement gas warfare he devised an organization that meshed the academy into the military–industrial complex. Later three other Nobel laureates, Emil Fischer, Heinrich Wieland and Richard Willstätter, contributed to the enterprise. Huge quantities of poisons were used by both sides during the war, because they were well adapted to static trench warfare, even though—which is a surprise to many—they were substantially less deadly than explosives.

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