Associations to the word «Franck»

Dictionary definition

FRANCK, noun. French composer and teacher who influenced a generation of composers (1822-1890).
FRANCK, noun. United States physicist (born in Germany) who with Gustav Hertz performed an electron scattering experiment that proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Niels Bohr (1882-1964).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope