James Franck

and Gustav Hertz

Written by Zachary Maciejewski

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The Main Idea

Biography of Frank/Hertz

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See also:

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1925/hertz-bio.html

External links

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Visualizations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0GqNtsmaYU

http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/FranckHertzExperiment/

https://archive.org/details/FranckHertzExperiment

http://vlab.amrita.edu/?sub=1&brch=195&sim=355&cnt=1

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http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1925/franck-bio.html

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/frhz.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franck%E2%80%93Hertz_experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Franck