Philipp Frank
Philipp Frank · Science & Medicine
Mathematical physics and philosophy of science
1884, Vienna, Austria-Hungary — 1966, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Austria · Czechoslovakia · United States
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Frank, an Austrian-born physicist and philosopher of Jewish origin, was a founding member of the Vienna Circle of logical positivists and a bridge between physics and philosophy. He succeeded Einstein in the physics chair at the German University in Prague and later fled to the United States. He is remembered for work on the philosophy of science and for his influential biography of Einstein.
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Mathematical physics and philosophy of science
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