Philipp Frank | |
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Born | March 20, 1884 Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
Died | July 21, 1966 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
Relatives | Josef Frank |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Vienna |
Doctoral advisor | Ludwig Boltzmann |
Academic work | |
Doctoral students | Peter Bergmann, Reinhold Furth |
Philipp Frank (March 20, 1884 – July 21, 1966) was a physicist, mathematician and philosopher of the early-to-mid 20th century. He was a logical positivist, and a member of the Vienna Circle. He was influenced by Mach and was one of the Machists criticised by Lenin in Materialism and Empirio-criticism.[1]