Collection: Adolph Frank student notebook | Science History Institute

Scope and content

This notebook contains class notes. The notes address, among other things, acids and solubility. Notebook has 36 pages of continous text and 7 tables. Text is handwritten in ink with pencil additions and corrections.

Dates

Creation: 1850s

Language of Materials

Text in German.

Biographical sketch

Frank was born on January 20, 1834. In the late 1890s Frank and Nikodem Caro patented the Frank-Caro Process for creating calcium cyanamide from carbon. Frank is considered the father of the German potash industry. He died on May 30, 1916 in Berlin, Germany.