Josef Schintlmeister, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Josef Schintlmeister

Austrian physicist

Date of Birth: 16-Jun-1908

Place of Birth: Radstadt, Salzburg, Austria

Date of Death: 14-Aug-1971

Profession: physicist, university teacher, nuclear physicist

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Josef Schintlmeister (16 June 1908, Radstadt – 14 August 1971, Hinterglemm) was an Austrian-German nuclear physicist and alpinist from Radstadt.
During World War II, he worked on the German nuclear energy project, also known as the Uranium Club.
After World War II, he was sent Russia to work on the Soviet atomic bomb project.
After he returned to Vienna, he took positions in East Germany.
He was a professor of physics at the Technische Hochschule Dresden as well holding a leading scientific position at the Rossendorf Central Institute for Nuclear Research.