1884 – 1966
Philipp Frank (1884–1966) was an Austrian-American physicist and philosopher of science, closely associated with the Vienna Circle and logical empiricism. He succeeded Albert Einstein as professor of theoretical physics at the German University in Prague and later emigrated to the United States, where he taught at Harvard. His work focused on the epistemological foundations of physical science and the demarcation between scientific and metaphysical claims.
Key contributor to the Vienna Circle and the logical empiricist movement
Succeeded Einstein as Chair of Theoretical Physics at the German University in Prague (1912)
Authored the authoritative intellectual biography Einstein: His Life and Times (1947)
Founded and directed the Institute for the Unity of Science at Harvard
Developed a systematic critique of the boundary between scientific meaning and metaphysical pseudo-assertion