Aristid von Grosse

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Aristid von Grosse (born January 4, 1905 in Riga , † July 21, 1985 in Laguna Hills , California) was a German - American nuclear chemist . While he was working with Otto Hahn , he got access to waste from radium production and was able to isolate protactinium oxide from it in 1927 . In 1934 he was also able to produce metallic protactinium from protactinium (V) iodide .

He left Germany in 1930 and was visiting professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago from 1931 to 1940 . From 1940 he worked at Columbia University on nuclear fission and then on the Manhattan Project . After the Second World War he was director of the Research Institute at Temple University from 1948 to 1969 and then worked at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia until his retirement . In 1957 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

Aristid died of pneumonia in Laguna Hills, California on July 21, 1985.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Weiner: The Niels Bohr Library & Archives: Interview with Dr. Aristid Grosse . American Institute of Physics. January 11, 1974. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
  2. ↑ Aristid von Grosse: Das Element 91; its properties and its extraction . In: Reports of the German Chemical Society . 61, No. 1, 1928, pp. 233-245. doi : 10.1002 / cber.19280610137 .
  3. ^ Aristid von Grosse: Element 91 . In: Science . 80, No. 2084, 1934, pp. 512-516. doi : 10.1126 / science.80.2084.512 . PMID 17734249 .
  4. ↑ Aristid v. Large: For the production of Protactinium . In: Reports of the German Chemical Society (A and B Series) . 68, No. 2, 1935, p. 307. doi : 10.1002 / cber.19350680218 .
  5. ↑ Aristid V. Grosse, 80; Did A-Bomb Research . The New York Times. July 23, 1985. Retrieved November 7, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Grosse, Aristid von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1985
Place of death Laguna Hills , California, United States