George Placzek (German: Georg Placzek; September 26, 1905 – October 9, 1955) was a Czech physicist. Placzek was born on September 26, 1905 into a wealthy...
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Placzek (1799–1884), Moravian rabbi Adrianna Płaczek (born 1993), Polish handball player Baruch Placzek (1834–1922), Moravian rabbi and writer George...
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26 January 1939. When Bohr told George Placzek that this resolved all the mysteries of transuranic elements, Placzek told him that one remained: the neutron...
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Vermillion Houston, Friedrich Hund, Robert S. Mulliken, Rudolf Peierls, George Placzek, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Fritz Sauter, John C. Slater, Edward Teller, John...
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1942. These were Bertrand Goldschmidt and Pierre Auger from France, George Placzek from Czechoslovakia, S. G. Bauer from Switzerland, Friedrich Paneth...
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and Nuclear Specifications), Peierls (Implosion Hydrodynamics) and George Placzek (Composite Weapon). Niels Bohr and his son Aage, a physicist who acted...
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direct experimental proof of the nuclear fission was suggested to him by George Placzek. Many feel that Meitner and Frisch deserved Nobel Prize recognition...
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biologist Karel Petr, mathematician Josef Ladislav Píč, archaeologist George Placzek, physicist Julius Pokorny, etymologist Ferdinand Porsche, automotive...
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responsible for Chemistry and Metallurgy, John H. Manley for Physics, George Placzek for Theory, Max Roy for Explosives, and Roger Wagner for Ordnance. Z...
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theory of the Raman effect was developed by Czechoslovak physicist George Placzek between 1930 and 1934. The mercury arc became the principal light source...
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explained by Lev Landau and George Placzek in 1934 in a short publication, summarizing major results of their analysis. Landau and Placzek noted in their short...
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Czechoslovak communist president Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957), composer George Placzek (1905–1955), physicist, participant in Manhattan Project Kurt Gödel...
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experimental physicists studied fission, they uncovered more puzzling results. George Placzek asked Bohr why uranium fissioned with both very fast and very slow neutrons...
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Edward Teller (category George Washington University faculty)
befriended Russian physicists George Gamow and Lev Landau. Teller's lifelong friendship with a Czech physicist, George Placzek, was also very important for...
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experimental physicists studied fission, they uncovered puzzling results. George Placzek asked Bohr why uranium seemed to fission with both very fast and very...
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recruited by George Laurence. A subgroup of theoreticians was recruited and headed by a Czechoslovak physicist, George Placzek. Placzek proved to be a...
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where he collaborated with Bohr and George Placzek on a paper on what is now known as the Bohr–Peierls–Placzek relation. The Second World War broke out...
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Raman scattered light. Early work in this field was carried out by George Placzek, who developed the theoretical treatment of bond polarizability. The...
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responsible for Chemistry and Metallurgy, John H. Manley for Physics, George Placzek for Theory, Max Roy for Explosives, and Roger Wagner for Ordnance. The...
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as one of an impressive group of theorists and mathematicians led by George Placzek on nuclear reactor fundamentals, including study of the effects on graphite...
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Baruch Jacob Placzek (1 October 1834 – 17 September 1922), also known by the pen name Benno Planek, was a Moravian rabbi, author, poet, orator, and naturalist...
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Stolper: "German Realities", Read Books, 2007, ISBN 1-4067-0839-9, p. 228; George Henry Danton: "Germany ten years after", Ayer Publishing, 1928, ISBN 0-8369-5693-1...
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market. In an attempt to obtain them, he met with Fermi, von Halban and George Placzek in New York in April 1942. He was unable to secure the supplies he wanted...
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experimental physicists studied fission, they uncovered puzzling results. George Placzek asked Bohr why uranium seemed to fission with both fast and slow neutrons...
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1142/10308. ISBN 978-981-320-100-2. A. Gottvald, M. Shifman (2018). George Placzek - A Nuclear Physicist's Odyssey. Singapore: World Scientific. doi:10...
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experimental physicists studied fission, they uncovered puzzling results. George Placzek asked Bohr why uranium seemed to fission with both fast and slow neutrons...
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Kronig (1904–1995) Yulii Khariton (1904–1996) Louis Néel (1904–2000) George Placzek (1905–1955) Felix Bloch (1905–1983) Ernst Stueckelberg (1905–1984) Herbert...
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Bohr and Fritz Kalckar to explain the mechanism of nuclear fission. George Placzek, who was skeptical about the whole idea of fission, challenged Bohr...
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philosopher and biologist. Peter Newmark (1916-2011), translation scholar. George Placzek (1905—1955), physicist (Manhattan project). Emil Redlich (1866—1930)...
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military Anton Pilgram (1450–1516), architect, sculptor and woodcarver George Placzek (1905–1955), physicist, participant in Manhattan Project Bolek Polívka...
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