Otto Haxel Facts
Otto Haxel Facts
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| Otto Haxel was born in New-Ulm, Germany. |
| From 1927 to 1933 he studied at the University of Munich. |
| In 1933 received his doctorate at the University of Tubingen where his doctoral advisor was Hans Geiger, inventor of the Geiger counter. |
| From 1933 to 1936 he worked as Geiger's teaching assistant at the University of Tubingen. |
| After he completed his habilitation in 1936 he became a teaching assistant and lecturer at at the Technische Hochschule Berlin. |
| From 1940 to 1942 he was a member of the Uranium Club, also known as the German nuclear energy project. |
| His specialty was the neutron absorption properties of uranium. |
| In 1942 he was drafted into the military where he worked on nuclear research under Admiral Rhein. |
| From 1946 to 1950 he worked with Werner Heisenberg at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Gottingen. |
| He also worked on the development of magic number in nuclear shell theory with J. Hans Jensen. |
| Jensen and Maria Goppert-Mayer later shared the 1963 Nobel Prize for this work. |
| In the 1950's he and 17 other German scientists signed the Manifesto of the Gottingen Eighteen. |
| The Manifesto stated their opposition to arming the German military with tactical nuclear weapons. |
| From 1950 to 1974 he was professor of physics at the University of Heidelberg. |
| In 1956 and 1957 he was a member of the Nuclear Physics Working Group of the German Atomic Energy Commission. |
| From 1970 to 1975 he was the Scientific and Technical Managing Director of the Karlsruhe Research Center. |
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