Gerhart Friedlander

Gerhart Friedlander, Gert ( born July 28, 1916 in Munich, † 6 September 2009 in South Setauket, New York) was an American nuclear chemist of German origin.

Life

Gerhart Friedlaender was a son of the Munich lawyer Max Friedlaender. He attended the Gymnasium in Munich and was after the handover of power to the Nazis in 1935, although still finish school, but was not admitted as a Jew to study. So he began an apprenticeship as a chemical laboratory, which he completed in October 1936 in the spring of 1935. In November, he emigrated to the U.S. and was lucky that a scholarship from the Hillel Foundation have been assigned locally. His sister Leonore and her husband George Nicholas Halm also emigrated to the U.S., his brother Rudolf had emigrated to England and was an English soldier during the Second World War.

He studied chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a PhD. Friedlander Americanized his last name and was taken up as a young scientist in the Manhattan Project.

After the end of World War II he worked in the research laboratories of General Electric in Schenectady and then went to the Brookhaven National Laboratory ( BNL ), which had been re-established for the development of civil applications of nuclear energy. He was promoted to head of the chemistry department. With Joseph W. Kennedy, he wrote the textbook Nuclear and Radiochemistry, which first appeared under the title Introduction to Radiochemistry in 1949 and was translated into various languages. Friedlander was at BNL an advocate for participation in the gallium experiment, the Laboratori Nazionali del was launched in Gran Sasso 1991. In the 90s, Friedlander was editor of the popular science magazine "Science Spectra ".

Friedlander edited the present manuscript autobiography of his father, which was then published on the website of the Federal Bar Association .. He also edited the diary of his brother Rudolf Friedlaender.

Writings (selection )

  • Joseph W. Kennedy: Textbook of Nuclear and Radiochemistry. Dt. Übers of Gertrude and Gerhart Friedlander. Munich: Thiemig, 1962
  • With Joseph Weneser: Solar neutrinos: Questions and Hypotheses, in: Science, February 13, 1987 p 755-759
  • Involved in Hitler 's courts: betrayal of the rule of law in Nazi Germany. Old Westbury, NY: Touro College Jacob Fuchsberg Law Center, 2006 DVD - video.
  • Science Spectra: the international magazine of contemporary scientific thought. Melbourne: Gordon and Breach Pub. Group, 1995
  • Memoirs. Detection at WorldCat
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