Hans H. Staub

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Hans Heinrich Staub (born January 20, 1908 in Wald , † December 21, 1980 in Zurich ; entitled to live in Oberrieden ) was a Swiss nuclear physicist .

Life

Staub studied physics at the ETH Zurich , where he also received his doctorate and then worked as an assistant from 1931 to 1937. In 1937 he came to the California Institute of Technology . From the winter semester 1938/39 he was a full professor at Stanford University . From 1942 to 1946 he worked on the Manhattan Project to develop and build an atomic bomb. At that time he was a friend and colleague of Nobel Prize winner Wolfgang Pauli . In the winter semester of 1949/50 he moved to the University of Zurich as a full professor . In the summer semester of 1973 he became an honorary professor there .

In 1944 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Paul Huber : Atomphysik (= Introduction to Physics. Vol. 3, Part 1). Reinhardt, Basel 1970.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quarterly publication of the Natural Research Society in Zurich, Volume 125, Part 4, p. 416
  2. ↑ a b c The University of Zurich 1933–1983: Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Zurich. Book publisher Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-85823-086-3 , p. 734.
  3. ^ A b Charles P. Enz: No Time to be Brief. A scientific biography of Wolfgang Pauli. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2002, ISBN 0-19-856479-1 , p. 492 ( online ).
  4. ^ Scientific correspondence with Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg, among others: 1955–1956. Part 3. , Ed. Karl von Meyenn. Springer, 2001, ISBN 3540675914 , p. 344
  5. ↑ APS Fellow Archive. APS Fellows 1944. American Physical Society, accessed December 11, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Staub, Hans H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Staub, Hans Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss nuclear physicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Forest
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1980
Place of death Zurich