Hans Suess
Hans Eduard Suess | |
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| Born | 29 December 1909 U.S. Geological Survey |
| Doctoral advisor | Philipp Gross |
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Hans Eduard Suess (December 16, 1909 – September 20, 1993)
Career
Suess earned his
After the war, he collaborated on the shell model of the atomic nucleus with future (1963) Nobel Prize winner Hans Jensen.[3]
In 1950, Suess emigrated to the United States. He did research in the field of cosmochemistry, investigating the abundance of certain elements in meteorites with Harold Urey (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1934) at the University of Chicago. In 1955, Suess was recruited for the faculty of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and in 1958 he became one of the four founding faculty members of the University of California, San Diego. He remained at UCSD as professor until 1977 and as emeritus professor thereafter.[3] He established a laboratory at UCSD for carbon-14 determinations, where he trained students including Ellen R.M. Druffel,[4] now the Fred Kavli Professor of Earth System Science at University of California, Irvine.[5]
Suess's most recent research was focused on the distribution of
- the calibration of the radiocarbon dating scale, and
- the study of the magnitude of the dilution of atmospheric radiocarbon by carbon dioxide from fossil fuels burned since the industrial revolution. This dilution is known as the Suess effect (see articles about the anthropogenic greenhouse effect).
The mineral suessite, a Fe, Ni-silicide in Enstatit-Chondrites, is named after him.[6]
Death
On September 20, 1993, Suess died in a La Jolla retirement home.[7]
Name confusion
Suess was frequently confused—by the
Notes
- ^ "Obituary Notes of Astronomers".
- ^ "Kurzbiographie und Publikationen von Hans e. Suess (1909-1993)".
- ^ a b "Register of Han Suess Papers 1875-1989". Mandeville Special Collections Library, Geisel Library, University of California, San Diego. Archived from the original on July 2, 2015. Retrieved December 26, 2011.
- ^ Druffel, E. M.Radiocarbon in annual coral rings of the pacific and atlantic oceans Available from GeoRef. (50373092; 1981-013648).
- ^ "UC Irvine - Faculty Profile System - Ellen R.M. Druffel".
- ^ Cabri, Louis J.; et al. (1981). "New Mineral Names". American Meneralogist 66:1099-1103. p. 1101.
- ^ Hans E. Suess, professor emeritus of chemistry, died
- ^ "Finding Aid redirect". Archived from the original on July 2, 2015. Retrieved December 26, 2011.
References
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- A Biographical Memoir, from the National Academy Press
- A Biographical Memoir, from the National Academy Press
- Genesis Mission page
- Suess-effect
- Murdin, Paul (2001). "Suess, Hans Eduard (1909?)". The Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics. ISBN 0-333-75088-8.
- Arnold, J. R.; Marti, K.; Wanke, H. (1994). "Hans Suess". Meteoritics. 29: 289. .
- Hans Suess. 2006. ISBN 978-0-309-09579-2.
- Robert Jungk in Brighter Than a Thousand Suns (Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1958), quotes Suess about the production of heavy water by the Vemork plant. From page 110: "... Jomar Brun, a former technical manager of the [...] heavy water works at Rjukan in Norway [...] stated that he had been told by Hans Suess, the German atomic expert employed there, that production [...] could not attain the dimensions important for war production in much less than five years." Jomar Brun fled to Sweden after the occupation by German troops in 1940. Brun's letters (1950–1987), archived in Hans Suess Papers:Series 2, Correspondence:b4/f29, contain a discussion of secret war operations and Brun's role in the production of heavy water.
- Hitler's Sunken Secret, a NOVA production airing in November 2005 undertakes a forensics approach to evaluate the heavy water threat.
- Brun, Jomar. Brennpunkt Vemork 1940-1945. ISBN 82-00-06864-1, 119 pages (1985), Universitetsforlaget.
- Arnold, J. R.; Marti, K.; Wanke, H. (1994). "Memorial for Hans E. Suess". Meteoritics. 29: 289. .
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