Willibald Jentschke

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Willibald Jentschke (around 1970)

Willibald "Willi" Karl Jentschke (* 6. December 1911 in Vienna , † 11. March 2002 in Goettingen ) was a from Austria originating experimental nuclear and particle - physicist .

Life

Jentschke studied physics at the University of Vienna from 1930 to 1936 . In 1935 he received his doctorate under Georg Stetter (1895–1988). Together with Friedrich Prankl he published further studies on the splitting of uranium discovered by Otto Hahn . During the Second World War he was involved in the German uranium project. After the war he emigrated to the USA, where he became a professor at the University of Illinois in 1950 . In 1956 Willibald Jentschke was offered a position at the University of Hamburg , the acceptance of which he linked with the demand for research possibilities at a modern particle accelerator, which led to the establishment of the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY) . From the founding of DESY until the end of 1970, Jentschke was chairman of the DESY board of directors and, in parallel, director of the II. Institute for Experimental Physics at the University of Hamburg for several years. From 1971 to 1975 he was director at CERN . After his time as CERN Director, he resumed his work at the University of Hamburg, interrupted by a one-year study stay ( sabbatical ) at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). In 1980 he retired from the University of Hamburg, but remained closely connected to his scientific workplaces DESY and CERN. After a long illness he died at the age of 90.

Awards

Selected literature

  • Willibald Jentschke, F. Prankl, and F. Hernegger: The fission of ionium under neutron irradiation , The natural sciences Volume 28, Issue 20, 315-316 (1940)
  • Willibald Jentschke and Friedrich Prankl: Energies and masses of uranium nucleus fragments when irradiated with predominantly thermal neutrons , Zeitschrift für Physik. Volume 119, Numbers 11-12, 696-712 (1942). Received 27 June 1942. Jentschke was identified as being at the II. Physikalisches Institut der Universität Wien, Wien and Prankl was identified as being at the Institut für Radiumforschung, Austria .
  • Willibald Jentschke: Energies and masses of uranium nucleus fragments when irradiated with neutrons , journal for physics. Volume 120, Numbers 3-4, 165-184 (1943). Received September 18, 1942. Jentschke was identified as being at the II. Physikalisches Institut d. University, Vienna .
  • Michael Schaaf and Hartwig Spitzer: On the 85th birthday of Willibald Jentschke , internal report DESY H1-97-01 , Hamburg 1997.
  • Michael Schaaf: Heisenberg wasn't interested in the bomb . Interview with Willibald Jentschke. In: Heisenberg, Hitler and the bomb . Conversations with contemporary witnesses. GNT-Verlag, Diepholz 2018, ISBN 978-3-86225-115-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Jentschke, Willibald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jentschke, Willibald Karl; Jentschke, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 2002
Place of death Hamburg