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Dr. Franck, Jewish Scientist Who Helped U.S. to Develop Atom Bomb, Dead

May 25, 1964
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Dr. James Franck, the German-Jewish scientist who shared in the Nobel prize for physics in 1925 and fled Nazi Germany in 1933, died here this weekend while on a visit from the United States where he helped to develop the atom bomb. Dr. Franck held the post of Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago.

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