Lothar Nordheim
Lothar Nordheim · Science & Medicine
Physicist; the Fowler-Nordheim theory of field emission
1899, Munich, Germany — 1985, La Jolla, California, United States
Germany · Netherlands · United States
Lothar Nordheim is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; the Fowler-Nordheim theory of field emission
Lothar Nordheim was a theoretical physicist who co-developed the Fowler–Nordheim theory of electron field emission and made early contributions to quantum theory of metals and to nuclear physics. A German Jew, he fled the Nazi regime, emigrating via the Netherlands to the United States, where he worked at Purdue, on the Manhattan Project era reactor programs, and at Duke and General Atomics.
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Physicist; the Fowler-Nordheim theory of field emission
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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