Hans Fränz
Hans Fränz (born September 28, 1899 in Berlin , † June 16, 1976 in Locarno ) was a German nuclear physicist and, together with Walther Bothe, discovered the decay of atomic nuclei under alpha radiation . He was the brother of the electrical engineer Kurt Fränz .
Fränz entered the service of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (PTR) in 1925 . After receiving his doctorate (1926), he and Walther Bothe did the first investigations into the decay products of atomic nuclei under bombardment with alpha particles in 1928 . In 1930 he was appointed head of the laboratory for radioactivity at the PTR and in 1949 Max von Laue appointed him to the newly founded Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt , where he was chief director of the department for atomic physics from 1952 to 1964 and initiated the construction of the Braunschweig research reactor . In 1956 he took over an honorary professorship at the TU Braunschweig .
Works
- Excitation of gas spectra through chemical reactions. Dissertation, Berlin 1926
- Artificial conversion and excitation of atomic nuclei ; in Karl Scheel and Hans Geiger , Handbuch der Physik, Vol. 22, 1933
- Corpuscles and quanta ; in Friedrich Kohlrausch , Practical Physics, 22nd edition. 1968
- Radioactivity, nuclei ; in Hermann Ebert, Physikalisches Taschenbuch, 3rd ed. 1962
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Fränz in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Nobel lecture by Walther Bothe
- ↑ Kürschner, German Scholarly Calendar, 1976
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fränz, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fränz, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German nuclear physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 1976 |
| Place of death | Locarno |