Francis Simon
Francis Simon · Science & Medicine
Physicist; low-temperature physics and the third law of thermodynamics
1893, Berlin, Germany — 1956, Oxford, England
Germany · United Kingdom
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Francis (Franz) Simon was a German-British physicist and pioneer of low-temperature physics who gave a decisive experimental confirmation of the third law of thermodynamics. Having fled Nazi Germany for Oxford, he devised the gaseous-diffusion method for separating uranium isotopes, a key contribution to the Allied atomic project. He was born into a Jewish family in Berlin.
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Physicist; low-temperature physics and the third law of thermodynamics
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