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On 22 April 1939, after hearing a colloquium paper by his colleague Wilhelm Hanle at the University of Göttingen proposing the use of uranium fission in an Uranmaschine (uranium machine, i.e., nuclear reactor), Georg Joos, along with Hanle, notified Wilhelm Dames, at the Reichserziehungsministerium (REM, Reich Ministry of Education), of potential military and economic applications of nuclear ...
Germany portal; Nuclear technology portal; Trent Park, a similarly bugged house where captured German generals were luxuriously housed during the war and their unguarded conversations monitored; Latimer House and Wilton Park Estate, similar facilities used to monitor other captured German officers during the war before transferring them to POW ...
Werner Heisenberg, Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics from 1942. The Haigerloch Research Reactor was a German nuclear reactor test facility. It was built in a rock cellar in Hohenzollerischen Lande Haigerloch early in 1945 as part of the German nuclear program during World War II.
Exhibition marking the 20th anniversary of the Democratic Women's League of Germany. Youth hour at the Museum of German History during the exhibition “Germany from 1933–1945” in 1964. It interpreted German history as a class struggle consistent with Marx's historical materialism. It displayed texts and 100,000 objects, divided into seven ...
The Leipzig L-IV experiment accident was the first nuclear accident in history. It occurred on 23 June 1942 in a laboratory at the Physical Institute of the Leipzig University in Leipzig, Germany. There was a steam explosion and a reactor fire in the "uranium machine", a primitive form of research reactor. [1]
Otto Hahn (German: [ˈɔtoː ˈhaːn] ⓘ; 8 March 1879 – 28 July 1968) was a German chemist who was a pioneer in the field of radiochemistry.He is referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry and discoverer of nuclear fission, the science behind nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.
Through courageous negotiations by the pastor to rescue the reactor facility it was spared from demolition by an American command on April 24, 1945, and today is the site of the Atomkeller-Museum with a replica of the reactor. [3]
Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen (German pronunciation: [ˈhans ˈjɛnzn̩] ⓘ; 25 June 1907 – 11 February 1973) was a German nuclear physicist.During World War II, he worked on the German nuclear energy project, known as the Uranium Club, where he contributed to the separation of uranium isotopes.