Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I kitea e Franck he tūranga i te "Polytekniske Læreanstalt" i Copenhagen mo Arthur von Hippel, ko ia inaianei tana tama i roto i te ture, kua marenatia ki tana tamahine a Dagmar. I whakatau ia ki te whakarato i te haumaru pūtea mō ana tamariki mā te wehewehe i te moni o tana Tohu Nobel ki a rātau. I tukua te mētara koura ki a Niels Bohr hei tiaki. I te wā o Tiamana
I whakaekehia a Denmark i te 9 Paenga-whawha 1940, ka whakakorehia e te kaimatai Hungarian a George de Hevesy te mētara koura, me tera o Max von Laue i roto i te wai kingi kia kore ai e tangohia e nga Tiamana. I whakatakotoria e ia te rongoā i puta mai ki runga i te papa i roto i tana taiwhanga i te Niels Bohr Institute. Whai muri i te pakanga, ka hoki mai ia kia kitea te rongoā kaore i whakararuraru, a, ka whakaheke i te koura mai i te waikawa. Kātahi ka whakarerekētia e te Nobel Society ngā mētara o te Nobel Prize.