Frank Erhart Emmanuel Germann

Frank Erhart Emmanuel Germann (December 6, 1887 – February 27, 1974) was an American physicist, physical chemist, and university professor. He was a founding member of the modern chemistry department of the University of Colorado.

Germann was born in Peru, Miami County, Indiana, second child of Mary Fredericke Mueller (1864–1942) and Gustave Adolph Germann (1860–1940). His only sibling was Albert Fredrick Ottomar Germann (1886–1976), who was also a physical chemist. Frank Germann graduated from Peru High School in 1906. He received the A.B. in physics from Indiana University in 1911. He received the Sc.D. degree (docteur ès sciences physiques) from the University of Geneva (Geneva, Switzerland) in 1914 with research under the guidance of Philippe-Auguste Guye (1862–1922).

Germann was on the faculties of the University of Geneva (1912–1914). Indiana University, Bloomington (1914), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (1914–1918), Colorado School of Mines, Golden (1918–1919), and the University of Colorado, Boulder (1919–1956). He was also on the research staff of the National Bureau of Standards–Boulder (1956–1966).

At the University of Geneva, he was assistant en chimie théorique et technique. His research there resulted in many publications.

While writing his Sc.D. thesis, he was Instructor of French for one semester in the Department of Romance Languages at Indiana University. At Cornell, Frank’s initial appointment was as Assistant in Physics; promotion to Instructor in Physics awaited the doctorate. In his first physical chemistry research, he found evidence for the iscositetrahydrate of uranium nitrate. At Colorado School of Mines, he was Associate Professor, a joint appointment in the Departments of Physics and Electrical Engineering.

Germann was appointed Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Colorado for the 1919–1920 academic year, promoted to Professor of Chemistry within a year. Germann joined Professor John Bernard Ekeley (1869–1951) and Assistant Professor Paul Marshall Dean (born 1885). These three men were to lead the Department of Chemistry for many years. Ekeley retired in 1937. Dean retired in 1953. Germann retired in 1956.

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