Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German physicist
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Place of Birth: Esslingen am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
About Heinz Maier-Leibnitz
- Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (28 March 1911 in Esslingen am Neckar – 16 December 2000 in Allensbach) was a German physicist.
- He made contributions to nuclear spectroscopy, coincidence measurement techniques, radioactive tracers for biochemistry and medicine, and neutron optics.
- He was an influential educator and an advisor to the Federal Republic of Germany on nuclear programs. During World War II, Maier-Leibnitz worked at the Institute of Physics of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research, in Heidelberg.
- After the war, he spent a year working in North America, after which he returned to the Institute of Physics.
- In 1952, he assumed the Chair for Technical Physics and directorship of the Laboratory for Technical Physics at the Technische Hochschule München.
- He became a leader in establishing and building centers which used nuclear reactors as neutron sources for research.
- The first was the Research Reactor Munich, which was the seed for the entire Garching research campus of the Technische Hochschule München.
- The second was the German-French project to construct a high-flux neutron source and found the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France; he was also its first director.
- His leadership also helped establish the Physics Department at the Technische Hochschule München.
- Maier-Leibnitz was the chairman of a special committee for designing the German Nuclear Program, and thus he was the architect of the first full-scale nuclear program of the Federal Republic of Germany.
- He was a signatory of the Göttingen Manifest. In his honor, the German Research Foundation annually awards six scientists with the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis.
- The research reactor Forschungsreaktor München II is officially named Forschungsneutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz.
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