Who was Amelia Frank? The life of a forgotten physicist
- Written by Peter Jacobson, Senior Lecturer in Condensed Matter Physics, The University of Queensland
Amelia Frank, June 1930.University of WisconsinIn 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 credits her with key work on the...





