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Hans von Halban
Hans von Halban in 1942
Born(1908-01-24)24 January 1908
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Died28 November 1964(1964-11-28) (aged 56)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Alma materUniversity of Zurich
Spouses
Els Andriesse
(divorced)
Aline de Gunzbourg
(divorced)
Children3
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Doctoral advisorEdgar Meyer [de]

Hans Heinrich von Halban (24 January 1908 – 28 November 1964) was a French physicist, of Austrian-Jewish descent.

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Hans Heinrich von Halban (24 January 1908 – 28 November 1964) was a French physicist, of Austrian-Jewish descent. He was descended on his father's side...

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Joliot-Curie. He joined Frédéric Joliot-Curie's group in 1934, where Hans von Halban came in 1937. They established in 1939 the possibility of nuclear chain...

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Joliot-Curie did not, and in April 1939 his team in Paris, including Hans von Halban and Lew Kowarski, reported in the journal Nature that the number of...

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also set out to replicate Fermi's findings. In collaboration with Hans von Halban and Peter Preiswerk, they irradiated thorium and produced the isotope...

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Quebec Agreement

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Because of the presence of a team of refugee French scientists led by Hans von Halban, Oxford also had the world's main supply of heavy water, which helped...

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Montreal Laboratory

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Czechoslovakia, S. G. Bauer from Switzerland, Friedrich Paneth and Hans von Halban from Austria, and R. E. Newell and F. R. Jackson from Britain. The...

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Deuterium

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central role in his suicide a decade later. Shortly before the war, Hans von Halban and Lew Kowarski moved their research on neutron moderation from France...

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Manhattan Project

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access to abundant water. The first director of the new laboratory was Hans von Halban. He was replaced by John Cockcroft in May 1944, who was succeeded by...

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Cavendish Laboratory

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Samuel Curran and the French scientists including Lew Kowarski and Hans von Halban. Several transferred to Canada in 1943; the Montreal Laboratory and...

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Enrico Fermi

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fostering many more experimental demonstrations. French scientists Hans von Halban, Lew Kowarski, and Frédéric Joliot-Curie had demonstrated that uranium...

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scientists at the Collège de France in Paris: Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Hans von Halban, Lew Kowarski, and Francis Perrin. In February 1939, the Paris Group...

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John Cockcroft

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themselves. A sticking point was the director of the Montreal Laboratory, Hans von Halban, who was a poor administrator, did not work well with the Canadians...

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James Chadwick

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then a chain reaction was possible. French scientists, Pierre Joliot, Hans von Halban and Lew Kowarski, soon verified that more than one neutron was indeed...

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Bruno Pontecorvo

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the British offered refuge to French nuclear scientists, including Hans von Halban and Lew Kowarski, they regarded Pontecorvo as an "undesirable". Fortunately...

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Photochlorination

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Diego/Berlin: Academic Press/De Gruyter, p. 71, ISBN 0-12-352651-5 Hans Von Halban: Die Lichtabsorption des Chlors. In: Zeitschrift für Elektrochemie...

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George Placzek

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His wife, Els Placzek (née Andriesse) was an ex-wife of physicist Hans von Halban. He lost all his relatives to Holocaust, casting a tragic shadow on...

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MAUD Committee

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accounts for 99.3%. Frédéric Joliot-Curie and his Paris colleagues Hans von Halban and Lew Kowarski raised the possibility of a nuclear chain reaction...

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Bertrand Goldschmidt

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Montreal Laboratory, where he worked with other French scientists such as Hans von Halban, Jules Guéron, Pierre Auger, and Lew Kowarski who would join the project...

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Emil Knauer

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confirmed by experiments of the young Josef Halban at the I. University Women's Hospital Vienna. Knauer, Halban and Ludwig Fraenkel, who proved the endocrinological...

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Arnold van den Bergh

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Göring. Van den Bergh subsequently wrote to Goudstikker's wife, Dési von Halban, informing her the sale had occurred "in order to avoid great unpleasantness"...

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Jacques Goudstikker

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the control of the Dutch government. Von Saher sued unsuccessfully in U.S. court for their return. Dési von Halban 2006 Goudstikker restitution of 202...

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Heinrich Heine

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S2CID 171072437. Robertson, Ritchie (1988). Heine. Jewish Thinkers. London: Halban. ISBN 9781870015929. Also published in New York by Grove Press, 1988. Sammons...

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