Friedrich Dessauer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German philosopher
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Place of Birth: Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, Germany
About Friedrich Dessauer
- Friedrich Dessauer (19 July 1881 – 16 February 1963) was a physicist, a philosopher, a socially engaged entrepreneur and a journalist. Friedrich Dessauer was born in Aschaffenburg, Germany.
- As a young man he was fascinated by new discoveries in the natural sciences.
- He was particularly interested in the X-rays discovered by Röntgen and their medical applications.
- After attending the humanistic Gymnasium in Aschaffenburg he studied electrical engineering and physics at the Technische Universität Darmstadt and the University of Munich.
- Due to radiation damage during his research on the use of X-rays his face was badly damaged and he was repeatedly treated with plastic surgery.
- In connection with this, he was released from military service.
- Due to the death of his father, he initially interrupted his studies, continued in 1914 at the Goethe University Frankfurt and then completed it in 1917.
- From 1924 to 1933 he was a Zentrum party member of the Reichstag, the German Parliament.Born into a Jewish family, he was imprisoned by the Nazis when they came to power for his opposition to Hitler.
- He was released at request of the Turkish government, who invited him to the University of Istanbul, where he was made chair of the Institute.
- Here he worked together with Erich Uhlmann to develop medical applications of X-rays in Turkey.
- He moved to Fribourg University in 1937 to become the chair of experimental physics.On 16 February 1963 Dessauer died from radioactive contamination.
- His name was added to the Monument to the X-ray and Radium Martyrs of All Nations in Hamburg, Germany.
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