Sir Francis Simon | |
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| Born | Franz Eugen Simon[1] 2 July 1893 |
| Died | 31 October 1956 (aged 63) Oxford, UK |
| Nationality | German-British |
| Alma mater | University of Berlin |
| Known for | Uranium-235 |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | Technische Hochschule of Breslau University of Oxford |
| Doctoral advisor | Walther Nernst |
| Doctoral students | Kurt Mendelssohn Brebis Bleaney Rostislaw Kaischew |
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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.
- ^ 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.