Science Quick Picks » Obituaries http://pontotriplo.org/quickpicks A Chemist's Selection of Science News and Resources Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:38:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912 – 2007) http://pontotriplo.org/quickpicks/2007/05/carl_friedrich_von_weizscker_1912_-_2007.html http://pontotriplo.org/quickpicks/2007/05/carl_friedrich_von_weizscker_1912_-_2007.html#comments Wed, 02 May 2007 09:30:19 +0000 Jorge Goncalves http://pontotriplo.org/quickpicks/2007/05/carl_friedrich_von_weizscker_1912_-_2007.html Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912 – 2007) is a post from Science Quick Picks, a blog dedicated to the world of Science.

]]> Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: 1912-2007. ‘The physicist and philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, who was the last surviving member of the team that tried and failed to build a nuclear bomb for Germany during the Second World War, died on 28 April at the age of 94. After the war, von Weizsäcker controversially claimed that he and other German physicists had deliberately chosen not to build the bomb because they did not want to equip the Nazi regime with such a dangerous weapon. Von Weizsäcker also accompanied Werner Heisenberg to visit Niels Bohr in Nazi-occupied Denmark in September 1941 – a famous meeting that was later to inspire Michael Frayn’s stage play Copenhagen.’

Wikipedia: Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker. ‘Weizsäcker was born in Kiel, Germany, the son of the German diplomat Ernst von Weizsäcker. He was the elder brother of the former German President Richard von Weizsäcker, and father of the physicist and environmental researcher Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker.
From 1929 to 1933, Weizsäcker studied physics, mathematics and astronomy in Berlin, Göttingen and Leipzig supervised by and in cooperation, e.g., with Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr. The supervisor of his doctoral thesis was Friedrich Hund.
His special interest as a young researcher was the binding energy of atomic nuclei, and the nuclear processes in stars. Together with Hans Bethe he found a formula for the nuclear processing in stars, called the Bethe-Weizsäcker formula and the cyclic process of fusion in stars (Bethe-Weizsäcker process, published 1937).’

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]]> Nobel Laureate Raymond Davis Jr. Dies At 91. ‘Raymond Davis Jr., a chemist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the discovery of solar neutrinos, died on May 31 from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. He was 91. Davis started investigating neutrinos in various reactors in the 1950s and conducted the landmark experiments that detected the solar neutrinos in the Homestake Gold Mine in Lead, S.D., in the 1970s.’

Raymond Davis Jr., Nobelist Who Caught Neutrinos, Dies at 91.

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]]> Nobelist Henry Taube Dead At 89. ‘Henry Taube, the inorganic chemist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering studies of electron-transfer reactions, died on Nov. 16. Just shy of his 90th birthday, Taube was still an active researcher and continued to go to his lab at Stanford University every day.’

MSU Gallery of Chemists’ Photo-Portraits and Mini-Biographies: Henry Taube.

Henry Taube – Nobel Lecture.

This Week’s Citation Classic: Rates and mechanisms of substitution in inorganic complexes in solution (pdf).

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]]> http://pontotriplo.org/quickpicks/2005/12/henry_taube.html/feed 0 Richard E. Smalley http://pontotriplo.org/quickpicks/2005/11/richard_e_small.html http://pontotriplo.org/quickpicks/2005/11/richard_e_small.html#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:11:02 +0000 Jorge Goncalves http://pontotriplo.org/quickpicks/2005/11/richard_e_smalley.html Richard E. Smalley is a post from Science Quick Picks, a blog dedicated to the world of Science.

]]> Richard E. Smalley, 1943–2005. ‘The world lost a major intellect with the death on Oct. 28 of Richard E. Smalley from leukemia (see page 7). Smalley shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of the fullerenes, but by then he had become more focused on the potential of cousins of the fullerenes-carbon nanotubes-and had become a champion of a national research initiative on nanotechnology. In recent years, in addition to his research on numerous nanotechnology fronts, Smalley had focused on the massive challenge the world faces with regard to energy.’

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