Henry Barschall
Henry Barschall · Science & Medicine
Nuclear physicist; neutron cross-section measurements
1915, Berlin, Germany — 1997, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Germany · United States
Henry Barschall is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Nuclear physicist; neutron cross-section measurements
Barschall was a nuclear physicist whose precise measurements of neutron cross-sections and neutron scattering became standard reference data for reactor and detector physics. Forced to flee Nazi Germany as a young Jewish man, he settled in the United States, worked on the Manhattan Project, and taught for decades at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was of Jewish origin.
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Nuclear physicist; neutron cross-section measurements
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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