George Placzek
George Placzek · Science & Medicine
Physicist; neutron physics and molecular scattering
1905, Brno, Moravia, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) — 1955, Zurich, Switzerland
Austria-Hungary · United States · Switzerland
George Placzek is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; neutron physics and molecular scattering
George Placzek was a Moravian-born physicist who made key contributions to neutron physics and the theory of molecular light scattering (the Placzek approximation), and worked on the Manhattan Project's theoretical physics. He collaborated with Bohr, Fermi and Bethe. He was Jewish.
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Physicist; neutron physics and molecular scattering
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