Francis Simon

Sir Francis Simon
Born
Franz Eugen Simon[1]

(1893-07-02)2 July 1893
Died31 October 1956(1956-10-31) (aged 63)
Oxford, UK
NationalityGerman-British
Alma materUniversity of Berlin
Known forUranium-235
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPhysicist
InstitutionsTechnische Hochschule of Breslau
University of Oxford
Doctoral advisorWalther Nernst
Doctoral studentsKurt Mendelssohn
Brebis Bleaney
Rostislaw Kaischew
Notes
He is the first cousin of Kurt Mendelssohn.

Sir Francis Simon CBE (2 July 1893 – 31 October 1956), was a German and later British physical chemist and physicist who devised the gaseous diffusion method, and confirmed its feasibility, of separating the isotope Uranium-235 and thus made a major contribution to the creation of the atomic bomb.

  1. ^ a b Kurti, N. (1958). "Franz Eugen Simon 1893-1956". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 4: 224–256. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1958.0020. JSTOR 769514.