Walter Seelmann-Eggebert

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Walter Seelmann-Eggebert (born April 17, 1915 in Schlachtensee , Teltow district, † July 19, 1988 ) was a German radiochemist .

Life

Seelmann-Eggebert was a student of Otto Hahn at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin-Dahlem, where he worked with Hahn, Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassmann . In December 1940 he obtained his doctorate at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin with the thesis Direct measurement of noble gases occurring during uranium fission .

In 1949, on the recommendation of the emigrated Austrian physicist Guido Beck, he became a visiting professor of chemistry at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán in the Argentine province of Tucumán , in 1952 in Mendoza and in 1953 at the Universidad de Buenos Aires , where he founded a group of radiochemists that discovered 20 new nuclides . As early as 1951 he was appointed to the National Atomic Energy Commission of Argentina , where he was involved in the rebuilding of the Argentine atomic research, which after the expensive failure of the Proyecto Huemul to generate practically unlimited energy at the lowest possible cost under the alleged charlatan Ronald Richter , who in 1947 Germany came, became necessary.

In 1955 Otto Hahn invited him to return to Germany to rebuild radiochemical research. Seelmann- Eggebert followed after the completed the same year overthrow of President Juan Perón , the great patron of the Argentine nuclear research, its reputation and was formerly a professor in Mainz before the the Radiochemical Institute 1958 Nuclear Research Center Karlsruhe to that of Karl Wirtz designed research reactor FR2 founded and directed until 1983. In 1958 he set up the Karlsruhe nuclide map with Gerda Pfennig .

literature

  • Renato Radicella: Walter Seelmann Eggebert: el fundador de la radioquímica argentina . Ciencia e Investigación, Buenos Aires 1992.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Seelmann-Eggebert: Direct measurement of the noble gases occurring during uranium fission ; Dissertation, Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin 1941.
  2. ↑ Ute Deichmann : Effects of National Socialism on Chemistry and Biochemistry in Germany after 1945 - Fleeing, Participating, Forgetting: Chemists and Biochemists in the Nazi Era . doi : 10.1002 / 3527603026.ch8
  3. ↑ Renato Radicella: Los veinte radioisotopos descubiertos en la Argentina ( Memento of July 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 4.7 MB), CNEA, June 2002, pp. 21-25.
  4. ^ KIT Karlsruhe, Faculty of Chemistry and Biosciences: History of the Faculty
  5. ↑ uni-protocol.de: The "Karlsruhe Nuclide Map" has been providing important data for 50 years , dated December 9, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Seelmann-Eggebert, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radiochemist
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Schlachtensee , Teltow district
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1988