Jacques Noetzlin
Jacques Noetzlin (* 1898 ; † 1972 ) was a French geologist, physicist and volcanologist.
Jacques Noetzlin came from a family of business people who were both Swiss and French. His father was a bank manager. Noetzlin studied law and then physics in Paris at the Sorbonne , with Jean Perrin among others , and became friends with Frédéric Joliot . Since he was wealthy, he did not take an academic position, nor did he research for the CNRS , which contributed to his work being forgotten.
After the war he made his large estate in Gif-sur-Yvette available to the CNRS (whose director at the time was Frédéric Joliot). The family owned a castle in Gif.
In the 1940s, right after the discovery of nuclear fission, he suspected that this was also behind the phenomena of volcanism. His early hypotheses about natural nuclear reactors were later confirmed by the discovery of Oklo's natural reactor in 1972.
After the war he dealt with volcanism and accompanied his friend Haroun Tazieff and Jean-Louis Cheminée on many volcano excursions worldwide. In 1955 he moved to Switzerland.
Fonts
- Volcanisme et chimie nucléaire, une expérience à entreprendre. Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1942
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| SURNAME | Noetzlin, Jacques |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French geologist, physicist and volcanologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1898 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1972 |