Ernst Rexer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ernst Rexer

German physicist

Date of Birth: 02-Apr-1902

Place of Birth: Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Date of Death: 14-May-1983

Profession: physicist, university teacher, nuclear physicist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Ernst Rexer (2 April 1902 – 14 May 1983) was a German nuclear physicist.
He worked on the German nuclear energy program during World War II.
After the war, he was sent to Laboratory V, in Obninsk, to work on the Soviet atomic bomb project.
In 1956, he was sent to East Germany, where he was a professor and director of the Institute for the Application of Radioactive Isotopes at the Technische Hochschule Dresden.