Friedrich Knauer (physical chemist)

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Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Knauer (born January 22, 1897 in Göttingen ; † July 7, 1979 ) was a German physical chemist . During World War II he worked on the German nuclear project, the Uranverein .

Life

Knauer did military service in 1917. Then studied from 1918 to 1924 at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and TH Hannover . He received his doctorate in electrical engineering in 1923 as a student of Hermann Beckmann and Wilhelm Friedrich Kohlrausch . Until 1924 he was assistant to Robert Wichard Pohl in Göttingen, then until 1932 scientific assistant in Hamburg at the Institute for Physical Chemistry . In 1932 he became an assistant, in 1933 he completed his habilitation there in physics and became a private lecturer at the University of Hamburg , and in 1939 he was appointed professor there. In 1940 he was a member of Paul Harteck's group at the University of Hamburg. He researched neutron diffusion in uranium . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

After 1945 he continued to work in Hamburg as a scientific employee until 1963 and, in the absence of Prof. Harteck, headed the institute as acting and later as deputy managing director.

Fonts

  • An alternating current compensator based on Görges' bridge circuit , 1923 (= dissertation at the TeH Hannover)
  • Investigations on artificially radioactive arsenic , with Paul Harteck, Werner Schaeffer, ZfPhysik, 1938, Vol. 109, 3-4, pp. 153-161

literature

  • Klaus Hentschel (Eds.), Ann M. Hentschel (Ass. And Ex.): Physics and National Socialism: An Anthology of Primary Sources , Birkhäuser, 1996
  • Mark Walker : The uranium machine. Myth and Reality of the German Atomic Bomb , Goldmann, 1994 ISBN 3-442-12835-8 (= German National Socialism and the Quest for Nuclear Power 1939-1949 , Cambridge, 1993, ISBN 0-521-43804-7 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hentschel et al. Hentschel, 1996, Appendix F.
  2. ^ Paul Harteck, Johannes Jensen, Friedrich Knauer, Hans Suess About the braking, diffusion and capture of neutrons in solid carbonic acid and about preparation 38 G-36, August 19, 1940
  3. ↑ Hentschel et al. Hentschel, 1996, Appendix F.
personal data
SURNAME Knauer, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knauer, Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Berthold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physical chemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH 7th July 1979