Bertrand Goldschmidt
Bertrand Goldschmidt | |
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.jpg) Goldschmidt in the 1960s | |
| Born | November 2, 1912 Paris, France |
| Died | June 11, 2002 (aged 89) Paris, France |
| Alma mater | ESPCI Paris |
| Known for | French atomic bomb |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Nuclear physics |
| Institutions | French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission |
| Thesis | Etude du fractionnement par cristallisation mixte à l'aide des radioéléments (1939) |
Bertrand Goldschmidt (2 November 1912 – 11 June 2002) was a French chemist. He is considered one of the fathers of the
Biography
Bertrand Goldschmidt was born in
During the
He later joined the Anglo-Canadian nuclear program at the Montreal Laboratory, where he worked with other French scientists such as Hans von Halban, Jules Guéron, Pierre Auger, and Lew Kowarski who would join the project in 1944. They contributed to the development of Canada's first nuclear reactor, the ZEEP, in September 1945. He returned to France in 1946.
Goldschmidt was one of the founders of the French
Goldschmidt headed the department of chemistry of the French Atomic Energy Commission until 1960. He is the author of numerous books on the history of the development of nuclear energy. He was the French representative in the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1958 to 1980.
He died on 11 June 2002 in Paris.
See also
- Abdul Qadeer Khan
- Deng Jiaxian
- Homi J. Bhabha
- Igor Kurchatov
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- William Penney, Baron Penney
Bibliography
- Notices d'autorité : Système universitaire de documentation • Bibliothèque nationale de France • Fichier d'autorité international virtuel • Bibliothèque du *Congrès • Gemeinsame Normdatei • WorldCat
- Conclusion sur bikini, Atomes n o 9, December 1946
- La purification de l'uranium, Atomes n o 15, February 1949
- L'aventure atomique, Fayard, 1962
- Le cycle de l'uranium, Atomes n o 85, April 1953 (Spécial Le centre atomique de Saclay)
- Les rivalités atomiques 1939-1966, Fayard, 1967
- Le Complexe atomique : Histoire politique de l'énergie nucléaire, Fayard, 1980
- Les premiers milligrammes de plutonium, La Recherche no 131, March 1982
- Pionniers de l'atome, Stock, 1987
- Goldschmidt, Bertrand (1990). Atomic Rivals. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0813515181.
- Cohen, Avner. "The Avner Cohen Collection." Bertrand Goldschmidt. Wilson Center, 3 Oct 2013. Web. 5 Nov 2013. Bertrand Goldschmidt | Wilson Center
References
- ^ Irène Joliot-Curie ou la science au Coeur , Par Marianne Chouchan
- ^ "Les ingénieurs de la 49e promotion de l'ESPCI Paris". Retrieved 18 June 2023.
- ^ a b "Bertrand Goldschmidt | Wilson Center". www.wilsoncenter.org. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
- ^ "Le plutonium". Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
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