Otto Haxel

Otto Haxel ( born April 2, 1909 in Neu-Ulm, † 26 February 1998 in Heidelberg ) was a German physicist who has been dealing with nuclear physics.

Haxel studied engineering and technical physics at the Technical University of Munich, where he joined the Corps Cisaria joined, and at the University of Tübingen. In 1933 he received his doctorate in Tübingen with Hans Geiger. In 1936, he was also at Geiger Assistant Professor at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin- Charlottenburg, where he was also his habilitation in 1936. During World War II he worked at the uranium project.

Haxel was with Hans E. Suess and J. Hans D. Jensen ( of this with Maria Goeppert- Mayer won the Nobel Prize ) in 1949 in the formulation of the shell model of the atomic nuclei involved.

After the Second World War he joined the staff of the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Göttingen and in 1947 associate professor at the University of Göttingen. At the University of Heidelberg in 1950, he built the Second Physics Institute on.

Haxel was for many years editor of the Journal of Physics, member of the German Atomic Energy Commission and was instrumental in the establishment of the Nuclear Research Centre Karlsruhe. From 1970 to 1975 he was scientific and technical director of the Nuclear Research Centre Karlsruhe.

He was a member of the Leopoldina and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, which he was president from 1978 to 1982. 1980 Haxel was awarded the Otto Hahn Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main.

He was a signatory of the Göttingen Eighteen, a group of 18 high school teachers who turned out to be a nuclear physicist against nuclear armament of the Bundeswehr. The name Göttingen Eighteen leans aware of the name of the Göttingen Seven.