Lew Kowarski
Lew Kowarski · Science & Medicine
Physicist; nuclear reactor development
1907, Saint Petersburg, Russia — 1979, Geneva, Switzerland
Russia · France · Switzerland
Lew Kowarski is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; nuclear reactor development
Lew Kowarski was a Russian-born French physicist who, with Hans von Halban and Frédéric Joliot-Curie, demonstrated that nuclear fission releases secondary neutrons, a key step toward chain reactions and reactors. He helped build one of the first reactors and was a founding figure in the creation of CERN. His father was Jewish.
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Physicist; nuclear reactor development
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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