Paul Harteck
Paul Harteck | |
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 1948 | |
| Born | Paul Karl Maria Harteck 20 July 1902 |
| Died | 22 January 1985 (aged 82) Santa Barbara, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Humboldt University of Berlin |
| Awards | Wilhelm Exner Medal 1961 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physical chemistry |
| Institutions | University of Breslau, |
| Doctoral advisor | Max Bodenstein |
Paul Karl Maria Harteck (20 July 1902 – 22 January 1985) was an
covert electronic listening devices
, for six months.
Education
Harteck studied chemistry at the University of Vienna and the Humboldt University of Berlin from 1921 to 1924. He received his doctorate at the latter under Max Bodenstein in 1926. From 1926 to 1928 he was Arnold Eucken’s teaching assistant at the University of Breslau.[1]
Career
From 1928 to 1933, Harteck was a staff scientist at the KWI für physikalische Chemie und Elektrochemie (KWIPC) (
Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer on experiments on parahydrogen and orthohydrogen. While at the KWIPC, he completed his habilitation in 1931 at the Humboldt University of Berlin[1] where he also supervised the dissertation of Karl-Hermann Geib who later developed the Girdler sulfide process
.
In 1933, Harteck went to do research with Ernest Rutherford at the University of Cambridge. During this time, Rutherford was working on accelerator-driven nuclear fusion, and Harteck was credited in the 1934 paper on the topic.[2]
Upon his return from England in 1934, he became an
Farm Hall for six months under Operation Epsilon. In 1946, upon his return from incarceration, he became director of the chemistry department at the University, a position he held until 1950.[1]
In 1951, Harteck became a resident professor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, where he taught until 1968.[1][4] In 1937 and 1952, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[5]
Internal reports
The following reports were published in
- Paul Harteck, Johannes Jensen, Friedrich Knauer, and Hans Suess Über die Bremsung, die Diffusion und den Einfang von Neutronen in fester Kohlensäure und über ihren Einfang in Uran G-36 (19 August 1940)
- Paul Harteck Die Produktion von schwerem Wasser G-86 (December 1941)
- Paul Harteck Die Trennung der Uranisotope G-88 (December 1941)
- Paul Harteck and Johannes Jensen Der Thermodiffusionseffekt im Zusammenspiel mit der Konvektion durch mechanisch bewegte Wände und Vergleich mit der Thermosiphonwirkung G-89 (18 February 1941)
- Paul Harteck Die Gewinnung von schwerem Wasser G-154 (26 February 1942)
- Paul Harteck and Johannes Jensen Berechnung des Trenneffektes und der Ausbeute verschiedener Zentrifugenanordnungen zur Erhöhung des Wirkungsgrades einer einzelnen Zentrifuge G-158 (February 1943)
- Paul Harteck, Johannes Jensen, and Albert Suhr Über den Zusammenhang zwischen Ausbeute und Trennschärfe bei der Niederdruckkolonne G-159
- Paul Harteck Paul Harteck’s Institute Papers, Volume 1-6 G-341
Selected publications
Articles
- A. Farkas, L. Farkas, P. Harteck Experiments on Heavy Hydrogen. II. The Ortho-Para Conversion, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Vol. 144, No. 852, pp. 481–493 (29 March 1934)
- M. L. E. Oliphant, P. Harteck, Lord Rutherford Transmutation Effects Observed with Heavy Hydrogen, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Vol. 144, No. 853, pp. 692–703 (1 May 1934)
Books
- K. F. Bonhoeffer and P. Harteck, Grundlagen Der PhotoChemie (Verlag Von Theodor Steinkopff, 1933)
- Konrad Beyerle, Wilhelm Groth, Paul Harteck, and Johannes Jensen Über Gaszentrifugen: Anreicherung der Xenon-, Krypton- und der Selen-Isotope nach dem Zentrifugenverfahren (Chemie, 1950); cited in Walker, 1993, 278.
Notes
- ^ a b c d Hentschel, 1996, Appendix F; see the entry for Paul Harteck.
- ^ Oliphant, Mark; Rutherford, Ernest; Harteck, Paul (1934). "Transmutation Effects Observed with Heavy Hydrogen". Proceedings of the Royal Society. 144: 692–703.
- ^ Heavy Water – Chris Waltham An Early History of Heavy Water (University of British Columbia, 2002), p.10
- ^ Harteck – MIT
- ^ Michael Schaaf Der Physikochemiker Paul Harteck (1902-1985) (University of Stuttgart, 1999)
- ^ Hentschel and Hentschel, 1996, Appendix E; see the entry for Kernphysikalische Forschungsberichte.
- ^ Walker, 1993, 268–274.
References
- Bernstein, Jeremy Hitler’s Uranium Club: The Secret Recording’s at Farm Hall (Copernicus, 2001) ISBN 0-387-95089-3
- Hentschel, Klaus, editor and Ann M. Hentschel, editorial assistant and Translator Physics and National Socialism: An Anthology of Primary Sources (Birkhäuser, 1996) ISBN 0-8176-5312-0
- Schaaf, Michael Der Physikochemiker Paul Harteck (1902–1985) Dissertation (Stuttgart), 1999, published as: CENSIS-REPORT-33-99, Hamburg
- Schaaf, Michael: "Heisenberg and Weizsäcker haben sich überschätzt" ("Heisenberg and Weizsäcker overrated themselves"), Interview with Paul Harteck, in: Schaaf, Michael "Heisenberg, Hitler und die Bombe" (GNT-Verlag, 2018) ISBN 978-3-86225-115-5
- Schaaf, Michael Schweres Wasser und Zentrifugen: Paul Harteck in Hamburg (1934–1951) 24 July 2003
- Walker, Mark German National Socialism and the Quest for Nuclear Power 1939–1949 (Cambridge, 1993) ISBN 0-521-43804-7
External links
- Annotated Bibliography for Paul Harteck from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues
- MPIWG – Horst Kant Werner Heisenberg and the German Uranium Project (MPIWG, 2002)
- Newspaper clippings about Paul Harteck in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW
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