Frank Erhart Emmanuel Germann (December 6, 1887 – February 27, 1974) was an American physicist, physical chemist, and university professor.
thesis, he was instructor of French for one semester in the Department of Romance Languages at Indiana University.
[9] At Colorado School of Mines, he was associate professor, a joint appointment in the Departments of Physics and Electrical Engineering.
[10][11][12][13][14] Of Germann's many students, 23 earned graduate degrees in chemistry or chemical engineering from the University of Colorado.
Four students—Ralph Newton Traxler,[15] Malcolm Cleveland Hylan,[16] Dzu-Kun Shen,[17] and Thomas Howard James [18]—investigated the chemistry and physics of photography.
Before spectrophotofluorometers were commercially available, James William Hensley,[21] Ray Alan Woodriff,[22] Elmer Russell Alexander,[23] and Robert George Rekers [24] were investigating fluorescence, phosphorescence, and luminescence.
Paul Frey, a graduate student of Germann, received the National Council Citation Award from Albright College in 1980 "for his excellence as a teacher and as a writer of a long list of books in the field of chemistry."
1928, Ph.D. 1936), was one of the twelve scientists who conducted the world's first firing of a nuclear weapon, the "Trinity" test on New Mexico's Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range on Monday, July 16, 1945.
[25] Germann married Martha Minna Marie Knechtel (1892–1966) on July 25, 1916, in St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Peru.