Gerhart Friedlander

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Gerhart "Gert" Friedlander (born July 28, 1916 in Munich , † September 6, 2009 in South Setauket , New York ) was a German-American nuclear chemist .

Life

Gerhart Friedlaender was a son of the Munich lawyer Max Friedlaender . He attended grammar school in Munich and, after the handover of power to the National Socialists , was still able to do his Abitur in 1935, but as a Jew he was not admitted to study. In the spring of 1935 he began training as a chemical laboratory assistant , which he completed in October 1936. In November he emigrated to the USA and was fortunate to have received a grant from the Hillel Foundation there. His sister Leonore and her husband George Nikolaus Halm also emigrated to the USA, his brother Rudolf emigrated to England and died as an English soldier in World War II.

He studied chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley , where he worked in 1942 with Glenn T. Seaborg with the work 1. The mechanism of the chemical separation of nuclear isomers. 2. New studies in artificial radioactivity doctorate . Friedlander Americanized his last name and was accepted into the Manhattan Project as a young scientist .

After the end of World War II, he worked in the General Electric research laboratories in Schenectady and then went to the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), which had been newly established to develop civilian uses of atomic energy . There he became head of the chemistry department. With Joseph W. Kennedy he wrote the textbook Nuclear and Radiochemistry , which first appeared in 1949 under the title Introduction to Radiochemistry and which has been translated into various languages. Friedlander was a proponent at the BNL for participation in the gallium experiment , which was started in 1991 in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso . In the 1990s Friedlander was the editor of the popular science magazine "Science Spectra".

Friedlander edited his father's manuscript autobiography, which was then published on the website of the Federal Bar Association. He also edited the diary of his brother Rudolf Friedlaender.

In 1973 Friedlander was elected to the National Academy of Sciences , 1974 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts

  • with Joseph W. Kennedy: Textbook of nuclear and radiochemistry . German Translated by Gertrude u. Gerhart Friedlander. Munich: Thiemig, 1962
  • with Joseph Weneser: Solar Neutrinos: Questions and Hypotheses , in: Science , Feb. 13, 1987 pp. 755-759
  • with Keith Turner: Rudi's Story: The Diary and Wartime Experiences of Rudolf Friedlaender . London: Jedburgh, 2006? ISBN 978-0-9544756-1-1
  • involved in: Hitler's Courts: Betrayal of the Rule of Law in Nazi Germany . Old Westbury, NY: Touro College Jacob Fuchsberg Law Center, 2006. DVD-Video
  • Science Spectra: The International Magazine of Contemporary Scientific Thought . Melbourne: Gordon and Breach Pub. Group, 1995
  • Memoirs . Proof at WorldCat

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Max Friedlaender: The memoirs of the lawyer Max Friedlaender , at the Federal Bar Association , p. 150
  2. ↑ Eberhard Haas; Eugen Ewig: Max O. Friedlaender. Pioneer and pioneer of legal law , in: Helmut Heinrichs (Hrsg.): German lawyers of Jewish origin. Beck, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-406-36960-X , p. 555
  3. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Gerhart Friedlander at academictree.org, accessed on February 6, 2018th
  4. ↑ Max Friedlaender: The memoirs of the lawyer Max Friedlaender , at the Federal Bar Association , p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Friedlander, Gerhart
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedlander, Gert (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American nuclear chemist
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 2009
Place of death South Setauket , New York