Frank einstein biography summary
Einstein : his life and times : frank, philipp, 1884-1966!
Frank einstein biography summary
Philipp Frank
Biography
Philipp Frank's father was Ignaz Frank and his mother was Jenny Feilendorf. Philipp studied physics at the University of Vienna obtaining a doctorate in theoretical physics in 1907 after working under Boltzmann.He described his student days as follows (see for example [1]):-
... the domain of my most intensive interest was the philosophy of science.The group of students that Frank is describing in this quotation is the group who would eventually become known as the Vienna Circle.Frank einstein biography summary for kids
I used to associate with a group of students who assembled every Thursday night in one of the old Viennese coffee houses ... We returned again and again to the central problem: How can we avoid the traditional ambiguity and obscurity of philosophy?
How can we bring about the closest possible rapprochement between philosophy and science?
Other members of the group at this time were Hahn, von Mises, and an economist and sociologist, Otto Neurath. The group developed the philoso