Joseph Joshua Weiss
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Joseph Joshua Weiss (30 August 1905 – 9 April 1972)[1] was a Jewish-Austrian[2] chemist and Professor at the Newcastle University. He was a pioneer in the field of radiation chemistry and photochemistry.
Education and career
Weiss was born in 1905 in
Frederick George Donnan.[3] in 1937 he started teaching at the King's College in Durham, which later became Newcastle University. In the thirties, Weiss published several of his ideas on electron transfer
processes in the mechanisms of thermal and photochemical reactions in solution.
In 1956, he was appointed a professor of Radiation Chemistry at Newcastle University.
Honors and awards
In 1968, he received an honorary degree from the
Technical University of Berlin. In 1970 he received the Marie Curie Medal from the Curie Institute, and officially retired from his chair at Newcastle. In 1972 the Association for Radiation Research established the Weiss Medal
, named after him.
Personal life
In 1942, Weiss married Frances Sonia Lawson, whom he would go on to have two sons and a daughter with.
See also
References
- ^ Schicksale und Karrieren: Gedenkbuch für die von den Nationalsozialisten aus der Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft vertriebenen Forscherinnen und Forscher, by Reinhard Rürup, Michael Schüring, Wallstein Verlag, 2008. Page 353.
- ^ Ute Deichmann, Flüchten, Mitmachen, Vergessen. Chemiker und Biochemiker im Nationalsozialismus, Weinheim 2001: Wiley/VCH.
- ^ Dan Meisel Chemistry Genealogy Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Professor J. J. Weiss, 1905-1972, International Journal of Radiation Biology, Volume 22, Issue 4 October 1972, pages 311–312. Prof George Scholes.
- The Weiss medal at the Association for Radiation Research website
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