Nuclear physics research reports
The nuclear physics research reports were an internal publication series of the German uranium project founded in 1939 . The publications were classified as top secret at the time , and even the authors were not allowed to keep copies. The reports were by Allied in 1945 Alsos Mission confiscated and in the United States to the United States Atomic Energy Commission managed the evaluation. In 1971 the reports were declassified and returned to Germany. Many reports were available at the Karlsruhe Research Center and were handed over to the German Museum in 1998 and can be found there in the 'Archive Online'; they are also available from the Niels Bohr Library at the American Institute of Physics . A large part is also printed in the book Collected Works / Gesammelte Werke Heisenbergs. The reports are numbered from G-1 to G-395.
Authors
The following German scientists published their work in the nuclear physics research reports as members of the Uranium Association:
- Nine of the ten nuclear physicists (apart from Max von Laue ) who were interned in the British Farm Hall after the end of the Second World War as part of Operation Epsilon : Erich Bagge , Kurt Diebner , Walther Gerlach , Otto Hahn , Paul Harteck , Werner Heisenberg , Horst Korsching , Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker and Karl Wirtz .
- German physicists sent to Russia to work on the Soviet atomic bomb project : Robert Döpel , Walter Herrmann , Heinz Pose , Nikolaus Riehl and Karl Günther Zimmer .
- Others: Fritz Bopp , Walther Bothe , Wolfgang Finkelnburg , Erich Fischer , Siegfried Flügge , Hans Geiger , Karl-Heinz Höcker , Friedrich Georg Houtermans , Peter Jensen , Georg Joos , Carl Ramsauer , Fritz Sauter and Fritz Straßmann .
literature
- Walter Blum, Hans-Peter Dürr , Helmut Rechenberg (eds.): Werner Heisenberg: Collected Works / Gesammelte Werke . Springer, 1985, ISBN 0-387-13400-X .
Individual evidence
- ^ Secret documents on the German nuclear program 1938-1945
- ↑ Klaus Hentschel, Ann M. Hentschel: Physics and National Socialism: An Anthology of Primary Sources . Birkhäuser, 1996 (Appendix B and E).
- ↑ a b Mark Walker: German National Socialism and the Quest for Nuclear Power 1939-1949 . Cambridge, 1993, ISBN 0-521-43804-7 , pp. 262,268-274 .