Hans von Halban
Hans von Halban · Science & Medicine
Physicist; nuclear fission and chain reaction research
1908, Leipzig, Germany — 1964, Paris, France
France · United Kingdom
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Hans von Halban was a physicist of Austrian and Jewish descent who, working in Frederic Joliot-Curie's Paris team with Lew Kowarski, published landmark 1939 experiments demonstrating that a nuclear chain reaction was physically possible. When France fell in 1940 he escaped to Britain with the world's stock of heavy water and continued Allied atomic research, later helping build France's post-war nuclear physics. He was of Jewish origin.
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Physicist; nuclear fission and chain reaction research
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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