Philipp Frank
Philipp Frank | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 20, 1884 |
| Died | July 21, 1966 Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Relatives | Josef Frank |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna |
| Doctoral advisor | Ludwig Boltzmann |
| Academic work | |
| Doctoral students | Peter Bergmann, Reinhold Furth |
Philipp Frank (Austrian German: [fraŋk]; March 20, 1884 – July 21, 1966) was an Austrian-American 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.