The paper is written on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of the prominent Russian soviet physicist, the Nobel Prize laureate Il'ya Mikhailovich Frank. The article has a biographic character and covers the whole I.M.Frank's life. The history of the Franks is given special consideration. In many cases fragments from memorial sketches written by Frank himself and personal memories of the author of this paper - his son - are used. Of course, high emphasis is placed on the scientific biography of the scientist Frank.

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