Friedrich Knauer (physical chemist)
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
- ↑ Hentschel et al. Hentschel, 1996, Appendix F.
- ^ 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
- ↑ Hentschel et al. Hentschel, 1996, Appendix F.
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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 |