J. Hans D. Jensen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

J. Hans D. Jensen

German nuclear physicist

Date of Birth: 25-Jun-1907

Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany

Date of Death: 11-Feb-1973

Profession: physicist, university teacher, nuclear physicist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen (25 June 1907 – 11 February 1973) was a German nuclear physicist.
During World War II, he worked on the German nuclear energy project, known as the Uranium Club, in which he made contributions to the separation of uranium isotopes.
After the war Jensen was a professor at the University of Heidelberg.
He was a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the Institute for Advanced Study, University of California, Berkeley, Indiana University, and the California Institute of Technology.Jensen shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.