Francis Simon
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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.
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Sir Francis Simon | |
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Born | Franz Eugen Simon[1] (1893-07-02)2 July 1893 |
Died | 31 October 1956(1956-10-31) (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 | University of Oxford |
Doctoral advisor | Walther Nernst |
Doctoral students | Kurt Mendelssohn Brebis Bleaney |
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He is the first cousin of Kurt Mendelssohn. |
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