Back فرانسيس سيمون Arabic فرانسيس سيمون ARZ فرانسیس سیمون AZB Franz Eugen Simon German فرانسیس سیمون Persian Francis Simon French Francis Simon Italian Francis Simon Portuguese Саймон, Фрэнсис Russian Francis Simon Slovenian
Sir Francis Simon | |
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| Born | Franz Eugen Simon[1] 2 July 1893 |
| Died | 31 October 1956 (aged 63) Oxford, UK |
| Nationality | German-British |
| Alma mater | University of Berlin |
| Known for | Uranium-235 |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | Technische Hochschule of Breslau University of Oxford |
| Doctoral advisor | Walther Nernst |
| Doctoral students | Kurt Mendelssohn Brebis Bleaney Rostislaw Kaischew |
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He is the first cousin of Kurt Mendelssohn. | |
Sir Francis Simon CBE (2 July 1893 – 31 October 1956), was a German and later British physical chemist and physicist who devised the gaseous diffusion method, and confirmed its feasibility, of separating the isotope Uranium-235 and thus made a major contribution to the creation of the atomic bomb.
- ^ a b Kurti, N. (1958). "Franz Eugen Simon 1893-1956". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 4: 224–256. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1958.0020. JSTOR 769514.