Walter Seelmann-Eggebert

Walter Seelmann- Eggebert ( born April 17, 1915 in Schlachtensee, Teltow, † 19 July 1988) was a German radio chemists.

Life

Seelmann- Eggebert was a student of Otto Hahn at the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, where he worked together with Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassmann. In December 1940 he graduated from the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin his Ph.D. work with Direct measurement of noble gases occurring in the uranium fission.

In 1949 he was visiting professor of chemistry at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán Province, Argentina Tucumán, 1952 in Mendoza and in 1953 at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, where he founded a group of radio chemists who discovered 20 new nuclides.

After the coup against Juan Perón in September 1955, the financial resources were scarce. 1955 Otto Hahn invited him to return to rebuild the Radio Chemical Research in Germany. He was formerly a professor in Mainz before the 1958-83 Radiochemical Institute of Nuclear Research Centre Karlsruhe founded and led. In 1958 he presented with Gerda Pfennig on the Karlsruhe Nuclide Chart.