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[5. Biographical Notes.]
Philipp Frank.
The physicist and philosopher of science Philipp
Frank (Vienna 1884 - Cambridge, Mass. 1966)
studied at Gottingen with David Hilbert and Felix
Klein and at Vienna, where he received (1907) his
degree in physics under the direction of Ludwig
Boltzmann. In the same year Hahn, Frank, and
Neurath began their meetings in a Viennese
café, where they discussed the new
philosophy of science and epistemology. In 1912 he
held the chair of theoretical physics at the German
University of Prague. Frank was an editor of series
Schriften zur wissenschaftlichen
Weltauffassung and Einheitswissenschaft.
He moved to the USA in 1938 where he taught physics
and philosophy of science at Harvard University.
His work Foundations of Physics was
published in 1946 in the International
Encyclopedia of Unified Science. From 1949 to
1966 he was president of the Institute of the Unity
of Science. He wrote several essays on philosophy
of physics: Between Physics and Philosophy,
Cambridge, Mass., 1941; Einstein: His Life and
Time, New York, 1953; Relativity: A Richer
Truth, Boston, 1950.
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