Paul Harteck
Paul Karl Josef Maria Harteck ( born July 20, 1902 in Vienna, † 22 January 1985 in Santa Barbara, California ) was an Austrian physical chemist.
Life
Harteck studied in Vienna and Berlin Chemie. After receiving his doctorate in 1926 with Max Bodenstein on photokinetics of Kohlenoxychlorides ( phosgene), he worked for Arnold Eucken in Breslau. From 1928 to 1933 he was an assistant with Fritz Haber at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry in Berlin - Dahlem. Then he occupied himself up to a one-year sabbatical with Ernest Rutherford in Cambridge. In 1934 he became director of the Institute for Physical Chemistry at the University of Hamburg.
Because of his participation in the German uranium project, he was interned on 3 July 1945 to January 3, 1946 in the British Farm Hall. From 1948 to 1950 he was rector of the University of Hamburg. In 1951 he emigrated to the USA where he worked in Troy / New York at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
In 1956 he was appointed by the Max Planck Society External Scientific Member at the Fritz Haber Institute.
Discoveries
In 1929 he discovered along with Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer hydrogen modifications ortho-and para-hydrogen. In 1934 he discovered along with Rutherford and Mark Oliphant, the hydrogen isotope tritium.