Walter Franz [SEP] place of death
Walter Franz
Walter Franz (8 April 1911, in Munich – 16 February 1992, in Münster) was a theoretical physicist who independently discovered the Franz–Keldysh effect.
Franz was a student of Arnold Sommerfeld at the University of Munich. He was granted his Ph.D. in 1934. In the preface to the book "Optik", Sommerfeld cited him for "the most recent and particularly lucid treatment" of the vectorial generalization of Huygens’ principle.
With Adolf Kratzer, another student of Sommerfeld, Franz co-
:
- Alvar Aalto
- Jacob Bakema
- Paul Baumgarten
- Luciano Baldessari
- Le Corbusier
- Werner Düttmann
- Wils Ebert
- Egon Eiermann
- Walter Gropius
- Arne Jacobsen
- Fritz Jaenicke and Sten Samuelson
- Gustav Hassenpflug
- Günter Hönow
- Ludwig Lemmer
- Wassili Luckhardt
- Oscar Niemeyer
- Godber Nissen
- Sep Ruf
- Otto Senn
- Hans Scharoun
- Franz Schuster
- Hugh Stubbins
- Max Taut
- Pierre Vago