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'''Walter Franz''' (8 April 1911, in [[Place:Munich|Munich]] – 16 February 1992, in Münster) was a theoretical [[Physicist|physicist]] who independently discovered the [[Engineering:Franz–Keldysh effect|Franz–Keldysh effect]].
'''Walter Franz''' (8 April 1911, in [[Place:Munich|Munich]] – 16 February 1992, in Münster) was a theoretical [[Physicist|physicist]] who independently discovered the [[Engineering:Franz–Keldysh effect|Franz–Keldysh effect]].


Franz was a student of [[Biography:Arnold Sommerfeld|Arnold Sommerfeld]] at the University of Munich. He was granted his Ph.D. in 1934.<ref>[http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=66697 Walter Franz] – Mathematics Genealogy Project. The title of his dissertation was ''Comptoneffekt am gebundenen Elektron''.</ref><ref>[http://www.theorie1.physik.uni-erlangen.de/leschke/genealogy.html Institut für Theoretische Physik I] - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 1934: München, Germany. This reference also cites his birth and death years.</ref> In the preface to the book ''Optik'', Sommerfeld cited him for  "the most recent and particularly lucid treatment" of the vectorial generalization of Huygens’ principle.<ref>Arnold Sommerfeld, translated from the first German edition by Otto Laporte and Peter A. Moldauer ''Optics - Lectures on Theoretical Physics Volume IV'' (Academic Press, 1964), p. vi</ref>
Franz was a student of [[Biography:Arnold Sommerfeld|Arnold Sommerfeld]] at the University of Munich, Germany. He was granted his Ph.D. in 1934.<ref>[http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=66697 Walter Franz] – Mathematics Genealogy Project. The title of his dissertation was ''Comptoneffekt am gebundenen Elektron''.</ref><ref>[https://www.emergent.physics.nat.fau.de/dr-hajo-leschke/academic-lineage-of-hajo-leschke\ Hajo Leschke] - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. This reference also cites his birth and death years.</ref> In the preface to the book ''Optik'', Sommerfeld cited him for  "the most recent and particularly lucid treatment" of the vectorial generalization of Huygens’ principle.<ref>Arnold Sommerfeld, translated from the first German edition by Otto Laporte and Peter A. Moldauer ''Optics - Lectures on Theoretical Physics Volume IV'' (Academic Press, 1964), p. vi</ref>


With [[Biography:Adolf Kratzer|Adolf Kratzer]], another student of Sommerfeld, Franz co-authored the book ''Transzendente Funktionen''. An academic descendant of Franz, Ludwig Tewordt, is cited as having received his Ph.D. at the [[Organization:University of Münster|Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster]], in 1953.<ref>[http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=66697 Walter Franz] – Mathematics Genealogy Project.</ref> The article in which Franz independently published the [[Engineering:Franz–Keldysh effect|Franz–Keldysh effect]] was published in 1958.
With [[Biography:Adolf Kratzer|Adolf Kratzer]], another student of Sommerfeld, Franz co-authored the book ''Transzendente Funktionen''. An academic descendant of Franz, Ludwig Tewordt, is cited as having received his Ph.D. at the [[Organization:University of Münster|Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster]], in 1953.<ref>[http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=66697 Walter Franz] – Mathematics Genealogy Project.</ref> The article in which Franz independently published the [[Engineering:Franz–Keldysh effect|Franz–Keldysh effect]] was published in 1958.

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Short description: German theoretical physicist

Walter Franz (8 April 1911, in Munich – 16 February 1992, in Münster) was a theoretical physicist who independently discovered the Franz–Keldysh effect.

Franz was a student of Arnold Sommerfeld at the University of Munich, Germany. He was granted his Ph.D. in 1934.[1][2] In the preface to the book Optik, Sommerfeld cited him for "the most recent and particularly lucid treatment" of the vectorial generalization of Huygens’ principle.[3]

With Adolf Kratzer, another student of Sommerfeld, Franz co-authored the book Transzendente Funktionen. An academic descendant of Franz, Ludwig Tewordt, is cited as having received his Ph.D. at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, in 1953.[4] The article in which Franz independently published the Franz–Keldysh effect was published in 1958.

Selected bibliography

  • Adolf Kratzer and Walter Franz Transzendente Funktionen (Akadem. Verl.-Ges. Geest & Portig, 1960)
  • W. Franz Die Streuung von Strahlung am magnetischen Elektron, Annalen der Physik Vol. 425, Issue 8, 689-707 (1938)
  • Walter Franz, Einfluß eines elektrischen Feldes auf eine optische Absorptionskante, Z. Naturforschung 13a 484-489 (1958)

Notes

  1. ↑ Walter Franz – Mathematics Genealogy Project. The title of his dissertation was Comptoneffekt am gebundenen Elektron.
  2. ↑ Hajo Leschke - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. This reference also cites his birth and death years.
  3. ↑ Arnold Sommerfeld, translated from the first German edition by Otto Laporte and Peter A. Moldauer Optics - Lectures on Theoretical Physics Volume IV (Academic Press, 1964), p. vi
  4. ↑ Walter Franz – Mathematics Genealogy Project.





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