Frank, Philipp#
b. Vienna, March 20, 1884, d. Cambridge (USA), July 21, 1966, physicist, mathematician and philosopher. Succeeded A. Einstein as professor at Prague University and lived in the USA from 1938. A follower of the positivist philosophy of the Vienna Circle.
Works#
Das Kausalgesetz und seine Grenzen, 1932; Das Ende der mechanischen Physik, 1935; Between Physics and Philosophy, 1941; Einstein, sein Leben und seine Zeit, 1949.Literature#
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 1965 (Festschrift).