Rudolf Fleischmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Rudolf Fleischmann

German physicist

Date of Birth: 01-May-1903

Place of Birth: Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 03-Feb-2002

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Rudolf Fleischmann (1 May 1903 – 3 February 2002) was a German experimental nuclear physicist from Erlangen, Bavaria.
He worked for Walther Bothe at the Physics Institute of the University of Heidelberg and then at the Institute for Physics of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research.
Through his association with Bothe, he became involved in the German nuclear energy project, also known as the Uranium Club; one of Fleischmann’s areas of interest was isotope separation techniques.
In 1941 he was appointed associate professor of experimental physics at the newly established Reichsuniversität Straßburg, in France.
Late in 1944, he was arrested under the American Operation Alsos and sent to the United States.
After he returned to Germany 1946, he became Director of the State Physical Institute at the University of Hamburg and developed it as a center of nuclear research.
In 1953, he took a position at the University of Erlangen and achieved emeritus status in 1969.
He was a signatory of the Göttingen Manifesto in 1957.