Willibald Jentschke

Willibald Karl Jentschke (December 6, 1911 in Vienna, † March 11, 2002 in Hamburg) was a native of Austria experimental nuclear and particle physicists.

Jentschke studied physics from 1930 to 1936 at the University of Vienna. In 1935, he received his doctorate at Georg Stetter ( 1895-1988 ). Together with Friedrich Prankl he published further examination to discovered by Otto Hahn fission of the uranium. During the Second World War he was involved in the German uranium project. After the war he emigrated to the United States, where he became in 1950 a professor at the University of Illinois. In 1956 Willibald Jentschke a professorship at the University of Hamburg, the adoption of which he combined with the demand for research opportunities at a modern particle accelerators, leading to the establishment of the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY) led. From the founding of the DESY by the end of 1970 was Jentschke Chairman of the DESY Board of Directors and in parallel for several years Director of the Second Institute for Experimental Physics of the University of Hamburg. From 1971 to 1975 he was director at CERN. After his time as director of CERN, he joined the University of Hamburg again, interrupted by a year of study ( sabbatical ) at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center ( SLAC ). In 1980 he retired to his scientific work places DESY and CERN, however, remained closely connected by the University of Hamburg. After a long illness he died at the age of 90 years.

Awards

  • Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz
  • Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
  • Dr. H.C., University of Illinois
  • Dr. H.C., RWTH Aachen, 1990
  • John T.Tate Award from the American Institute of Physics, 1996
  • Wilhelm Exner Medal, 1971
  • Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, 1983

Selected Literature

  • Willibald Jentschke, F. Prankl, and F. Hernegger Cleavage of ionium under Neutronenebestrahlung, The Science Volume 28, Issue 20, 315-316 (1940 )
  • Willibald Jentschke and Friedrich Prankl energies and masses of the uranium core fragments upon irradiation with predominantly thermal neutrons, Journal of Physics Volume 119, Numbers 11-12, 696-712 (1942 ). Received 27 June 1942. Jentschke what Identified as being at the Institute of Physics of the University of Vienna, Vienna and what Prankl Identified as being at the Institute for Radium Research, Austria.
  • Willibald Jentschke energies and masses of the uranium core fragments when irradiated with neutrons, Journal of Physics Volume 120, Numbers 3-4, 165-184 ( 1943). Received 18 September 1942. Jentschke what Identified as being at the Institute of Physics d University, Vienna.
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