Education / Experience:
| 1988 - Present: | Associate Professor, Physics, Cornell University |
| 1991: | Visiting Professor, Physics, Univ. of Bristol, England |
| 1982 - 1988: | Assistant Professor, Physics, Cornell University, former Director of Undergraduate Studies, Physics; former and current faculty senator |
| 1978 - 1982: | Postdoctoral Research Associate; Physics, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville |
| 1978: | Ph.D. Physics, Thesis: “An Inelastic Electron Scattering Investigation of the Complete 4d Shell” Princeton Univ |
| 1976 - 1977: | IBM Fellowship |
| 1974: | A.B. Physics, summa cum laude, Harvard College, Harvard Natl. Scholarship; Phi Beta Kappa. |
Research interests:
X-ray Spectroscopy for atomic and condensed matter physics; experimental biological and liquid physics
Selected Publications:
- J. Kuan (graduate student advisee), "A Coincidence Experiment for High Energy Scattering Spectroscopy in Atomic Physics" Frontier Science with Forefront Synchrotrons and XFEL Sources, X-Ray Science (GRS), Gordon Research Seminar, 2017, Stonehill College, Easton, MA and poster with the same title at the associated Gordon Research Conference by J. Kuan, A. Campello, C. Goddard, Y. Chen, and C. Franck
- Extracellular Processing of Molecular Gradients by Eukaryotic Cells Can Improve Gradient Detection Accuracy. Igor Segota and Carl Franck, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 248101 (2017)
- Inelastic X-ray Scattering from Copper K-shell Electrons at Intermediate Momentum Transfers,” Vincent Marchetti and Carl Franck, Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1557 (1987)
- 1s Core Level Spectroscopy of Graphite: The Effects of Phonons on Emission and Absorption and Validity of the Final State Rule. C. P. Franck, S. E. Schnatterly, F. J. Zutavern, T. Aton, T. Cafolla and R. D. Carson, Phys. Rev. B 31, 5366 (1985)