Josef Schintlmeister

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Josef Schintlmeister in the reading room of the ZfK Rossendorf

Josef Schintlmeister (born June 16, 1908 in Radstadt ; † August 14, 1971 in Hinterglemm ) was an Austrian nuclear physicist and collaborator on the uranium project and the Soviet atomic bomb project .

Life

Grave of Josef Schintlmeister in the Loschwitz cemetery in Dresden

As a lecturer in experimental physics at the 2nd Physics Institute of the University of Vienna, he worked on the German nuclear research project ( uranium association ) in the group of Georg Stetter , which dealt with nuclear fission and resonance absorption cross-sections of neutrons during World War II . He also found evidence of the existence of a new element, plutonium , published in four secret reports from 1940 to 1942 (partly with Friedrich Hernegger ). They found it was fissile and could be made in a reactor. He presented this to a specialist conference at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin in February 1942.

After the Second World War he worked as one of the specialists in the Soviet nuclear weapons project at Laboratory 2 and later at the Kurchatov Institute . In 1955 he returned to Austria, but soon after went to the GDR , where he became professor for nuclear physics at the TU Dresden . He was also director at the Central Institute for Nuclear Research in Dresden-Rossendorf and here head of the cyclotron division .

In the 1950s he was a representative of the GDR in the scientific council of the nuclear research institute Dubna (with Heinz Pose and Klaus Fuchs ).

He edited the German translation of the textbooks by Aage Bohr and Ben Mottelson ( theory of atomic nuclei ) and by Jakow Frenkel ( principles of the theory of atomic nuclei , 1957).

In 1964 Schintlmeister received the National Prize of the GDR III. Science and technology class.

Josef Schintlmeister was an experienced alpinist with international fame.

Fonts

  • The electron tube as a physical measuring device. Tube voltmeter, tube galvanometer, tube electrometer . 3. Edition. Springer Verlag, Vienna 1943
  • with Heinz Barwich , Fritz Thümmler: The Central Institute for Nuclear Physics at the beginning of its work. On the occasion of the commissioning of the first research reactor of the German Democratic Republic: lectures held . Akademie Verlag, 1958
  • with Wunibald Kunz: tables of atomic nuclei , part 1 properties of atomic nuclei , 2 volumes. Akademie-Verlag, 1958 (English translation: Nuclear Tables , 2 volumes. Pergamon Press, 1959)
  • with Wunibald Kunz: Tables of atomic nuclei , part 2 nuclear reactions , 2 volumes, Akademie-Verlag, 1965, 1967 (English translation: Pergamon Press, 1968)
  • with Franz Rudolf Keßler: Introduction to the physical principles of nuclear power generation . Akademie Verlag, 1969

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baptismal Register - TFBVI | Radstadt | Salzburg, rk. Diocese | Austria | Matricula Online. Retrieved October 30, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Life data from: Saxon State Library Dresden
  3. ^ Walter Kutschera, Wolfgang Reiter: Josef Schintlmeister and the Vienna Uranium Association . 2011
  4. ↑ Schintlmeister, Hernegger: About a previously unknown, alpha-radiating chemical element . G-55, December 10, 1940. The same: The position of the element with alpha rays of 1.8 cm range in the periodic system. III report . G-111, May 23, 1941. The same: Further chemical investigations on the element with alpha rays of 1.8 cm range. II report . G-112, May 1941. Schintlmeister: The prospects for energy generation by nuclear fission of the 1.8 cm alpha emitter . G-186, February 26, 1942. GP stands for “German Reports” and is a common abbreviation of the mostly secret German reports of the uranium project, directory z. B. Mark Walker: The uranium machine . Siedler 1990, Goldmann TB, p. 313ff.
  5. ↑ Hardwin Jungclaussen : Free in three dictatorships - How I experienced my life and how I found my happiness. Autobiography. trafo publishing group Dr. Wolfgang Weist, trafo Literaturverlag, Autobiographies Volume 48 series, Berlin 2015, p. 139, ISBN 978-3-86465-050-5 .
  6. ↑ Poser: on the history of JINR Dubna ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lomonossow.de
  7. ↑ Also Augusta Lavruchina, JA Solotow: The Transurane . VEB Verlag basic industry, 1961. Baldin, Goldanski, Rosental: Kinematics of nuclear reactions . Akademie Verlag, 1963. Collection of articles by Russian authors (Smorodinski et al.): The isospin of atomic nuclei . Akademie Verlag 1960
  8. ↑ Hardwin Jungclaussen : Free in three dictatorships - How I experienced my life and how I found my happiness. Autobiography. trafo publishing group Dr. Wolfgang Weist, trafo Literaturverlag, Autobiographies Volume 48 series, Berlin 2015, pp. 104-107, ISBN 978-3-86465-050-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Schintlmeister, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Radstadt
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1971
Place of death Hinterglemm