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Franklin F. Snyder
Franklin Farison Snyder (1910-2008) was an American hydrologic engineer who created the synthetic unit hydrograph in 1938 and supervised Rhine River flood forecasts for Allied crossings in 1944-45.
Franklin Field
Franklin Field, University of Pennsylvania stadium at 33rd and Spruce, Philadelphia; opened 1895, oldest college football stadium in use, home of Penn Quakers football, the Penn Relays, and Penn Commencement since 1986.
Franklin Foil
Franklin Foil is an American politician and Republican Louisiana state senator from Baton Rouge's District 16, elected in 2019 after 12 years in the state House.
Franklin Graham
Franklin Graham, born William F. Graham III, is an American evangelist and humanitarian executive who leads the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan's Purse, which he has run since 1979.
Franklin H. Epstein
Franklin H. Epstein, also known as F H Epstein, was an American nephrologist at Harvard and Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, called one of the fathers of nephrology.
Franklin half dollar
The Franklin half dollar, also known as the Benjamin Franklin half dollar, is a US 50-cent coin struck from 1948 to 1963, showing Franklin and the Liberty Bell.
Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute is a science museum and education center in Philadelphia, founded in 1824 in honor of Benjamin Franklin and now on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Franklin J. Schaffner
Franklin J. Schaffner (1920–1989), American film and television director, Oscar winner for Patton (1970), also directed Planet of the Apes, Papillon, and The Boys from Brazil; four-time Emmy winner and DGA president 1987–89.
Franklin K. Moore
Franklin K. Moore, also known as Franklin Kingston Moore, was a mechanical engineer and Cornell professor known for fluid mechanics, turbomachinery, and heat transfer research.
Franklin M. Fisher
Franklin M. Fisher (died 2019) was an American economist at MIT who won the 1973 John Bates Clark Medal, led IBM's antitrust defense, and testified for the government against Microsoft.
Franklin M. Orr Jr.
Franklin M. ("Lynn") Orr Jr. is an American petroleum engineer, Stanford professor emeritus, and the first Under Secretary for Science and Energy at the Department of Energy.
Franklin P. Mall
Franklin P. Mall (1862–1917) was an American anatomist and embryologist who founded human embryology in the United States and was Johns Hopkins' first professor of anatomy.
Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce (1804–1869), 14th U.S. president (1853–1857), New Hampshire Democrat and Mexican War volunteer; his Kansas-Nebraska Act support and loss of his party's nomination place him near the bottom of historian rankings.
Franklin Pierce rail accident
Franklin Pierce rail accident: the January 6, 1853 derailment near Andover, Massachusetts, that killed the president-elect's 11-year-old son Benjamin, the only fatality, and darkened Pierce's presidency.
Franklin Richards (character)
Franklin Benjamin Richards, Marvel Comics character, firstborn son of Reed Richards and Sue Storm of the Fantastic Four; debuted in Fantastic Four Annual #6 (1968) as a reality-warping, universe-creating powerhouse whose mutant status has been retconned.
Franklin S. Cooper
Franklin Seaney Cooper (1908–1999) was an American speech scientist who built the Pattern Playback, the first practical speech synthesizer, and led Haskins Laboratories for decades.
Franklin Stahl
Franklin Stahl (1929–2025) was an American molecular geneticist at the University of Oregon, known for the 1958 Meselson–Stahl experiment showing DNA replicates semiconservatively, and for decades of work on genetic recombination.
Franklin stove
The Franklin stove, originally called the Pennsylvania fireplace, is a cast-iron heating stove Benjamin Franklin designed in Philadelphia around 1742 to warm rooms more efficiently than open fireplaces.
Franklin Tao
Franklin (Feng) Tao is a heterogeneous catalysis researcher known for in-situ studies of catalysts under reaction conditions and for catalysts of singly dispersed bimetallic sites, isolated two-atom clusters.
Franklin Templeton Investments
Franklin Templeton Investments, also known as Franklin Resources, is an American investment manager founded in 1947, managing about $1.66 trillion for clients in over 150 countries.
Franklin U. Valderrama
Franklin U. Valderrama, born Franklin Ulyses Valderrama in 1962 in Panama City, is a United States district judge for the Northern District of Illinois since 2020 and the first Panamanian American Article III judge.
Franklin Ventures Investments
Franklin Ventures Investments is a family of Delaware series limited partnerships through which Franklin Templeton's Franklin Venture Partners raises capital for technology-focused venture and growth investments.
Franklin, Tennessee
Franklin is a city in Middle Tennessee and the county seat of Williamson County, about 15 miles south of Nashville, founded in 1799 and named for Benjamin Franklin.
Franklin's lost expedition
Franklin's lost expedition: Sir John Franklin's 1845 voyage in HMS Erebus and HMS Terror to find the Northwest Passage; all 129 crew died after the ships were beset in ice, and the wrecks were found in 2014 and 2016 with Inuit knowledge.
Frankliniella occidentalis
Frankliniella occidentalis, western flower thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), a polyphagous greenhouse and field pest native to western North America that vectors tomato spotted wilt virus and is an EPPO A2 quarantine pest.
FranklinWH
FranklinWH, formally FranklinWH Energy Storage Inc., is an American residential energy storage company founded in 2019 in San Jose, California, known for its whole-home battery system.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" is Rhett Butler's closing line in Gone with the Wind (1939), ranked number 1 movie quote by the AFI, fought over with Hollywood censors, and fined $5,000.
Franklyn Quinlan
Franklyn Quinlan is an American physicist who leads the Precision Photonic Synthesis Group at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, and received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2019.
Frankpledge
Frankpledge (francplege): medieval English collective-surety system grouping men into tithings of ten or twelve under a chief pledge, enforced by the sheriff's view of frankpledge; regulated by the Assize of Clarendon and Magna Carta, decayed under the Tudors.
Franks
The Franks (Franci) were a Germanic tribal coalition of the lower and middle Rhine, first recorded c. 260 CE, who conquered Gaul, converted to Catholicism under Clovis I, and ruled the Merovingian and Carolingian kingdoms culminating in Charlemagne's 800 coronation.