Wolfgang Gentner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German physicist
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Place of Birth: Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
About Wolfgang Gentner
- Wolfgang Gentner (23 July 1906 in Frankfurt am Main – 4 September 1980 in Heidelberg) was a German experimental nuclear physicist. Gentner received his doctorate in 1930 from the University of Frankfurt.
- From 1932 to 1935 he had a fellowship which allowed him to do postdoctoral research and study at Curie's Radium Institute at the University of Paris.
- From 1936 to 1945, he was a staff scientist at the Institute of Physics at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research, in Heidelberg.
- One of his areas of specialization was nuclear photoeffects.
- He was granted his Habilitation from the University of Frankfurt in 1937.
- At the end of 1938 and early 1939, he visited the Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley; upon his return to Germany, he participated in the construction of a cyclotron at Heidelberg.
- During World War II, he participated in the German nuclear energy project, also called the Uranium Club.
- After World War II, Gentner became a professor at the University of Freiberg. In 1956, Gentner was appointed Director of the Synchrocyclotron Department at CERN.
- In 1958, he became director of the new Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics at Heidelberg.
- From 1967 to 1970, he was chairman of the Physicochemicl-technical Section of the Max Planck Society.
- From 1969 to 1971, he was President of the Science Policy Committee and President of the Council at CERN.
- From 1972, he was Vice-president of the Max Planck Society.
- From 1975, he was a member of the board of governors at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Gentner helped found a number of European scientific organizations during the 1960s.
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