Who was Amelia Frank? The life of a forgotten physicist
December 22, 2025
December 22, 2025
BRISBANE, Australia, Dec. 22 -- The University of Queensland issued the following news:
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Who was Amelia Frank? The life of a forgotten physicist
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In 1977, an American physicist named John H. Van Vleck won the Nobel prize for his work on magnetism. In his Nobel lecture, amid a discussion of rare earth elements, one sentence leaps out:
Miss Frank and I made the relevant calculations.
Who was Miss Frank? Van Vleck . . .
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Who was Amelia Frank? The life of a forgotten physicist
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In 1977, an American physicist named John H. Van Vleck won the Nobel prize for his work on magnetism. In his Nobel lecture, amid a discussion of rare earth elements, one sentence leaps out:
Miss Frank and I made the relevant calculations.
Who was Miss Frank? Van Vleck . . .