Hartwig, Georg on 1985 November 23: in German.
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Abstract/Description: | Practical training at the Zeiss company, university study at Göttingen, Berlin, and the Potsdam Observatory, doctorate in 1939; nuclear physics crash course at Leipzig under Robert Döpel. Hartwig's interest in astrophysics and nuclear physics. With the outbreak of war, joins the Army nuclear physics research group under Kurt Diebner. The first uranium machine (G-I) experiment at the Army Weapons Testing Lab in Berlin-Gottow. Radiation protection. Tension between the research groups under the direction of Diebner and Werner Heisenberg. Question of internal uranium machine design, cubes or layers? The second uranium machine (G-II), a lattice of metal uranium cubes immersed in heavy water, a great success. The last years of the war, evacuation and survival. Occupation by the Allied armies, life in the Russian-controlled eastern zone of Germany. Hartwig's move to the new Federal German Republic, teaching first at a private engineering school, later state technical university (Fachhochschule). The 1950s atomic euphoria. |
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Subject(s): | Diebner, Kurt Döpel, Robert Hartwig, Georg Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976 Carl Zeiss (Firm : 1846) Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin Potsdam Observatory. United States. Army. Weapons Testing Laboratory. Universität Göttingen Universität Leipzig Astrophysics Atomic bomb Deuterium oxide Nuclear physics Nuclear reactors Radiation -- Protective agents Uranium World War, 1939-1945 -- Science World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Refugees |
Title: | Hartwig, Georg on 1985 November 23: in German. | |
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Name(s): |
Hartwig, Georg. Walker, Mark, interviewer. |
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Type of Resource: | mixed material | |
Genre: |
Transcripts. Interviews. Sound recordings. Oral histories. |
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Issuance: | monographic | |
Date Created: | 1985 | |
Extent: |
Transcript: 20 pages. Audio recording: 1 cassette. |
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Abstract/Description: | Practical training at the Zeiss company, university study at Göttingen, Berlin, and the Potsdam Observatory, doctorate in 1939; nuclear physics crash course at Leipzig under Robert Döpel. Hartwig's interest in astrophysics and nuclear physics. With the outbreak of war, joins the Army nuclear physics research group under Kurt Diebner. The first uranium machine (G-I) experiment at the Army Weapons Testing Lab in Berlin-Gottow. Radiation protection. Tension between the research groups under the direction of Diebner and Werner Heisenberg. Question of internal uranium machine design, cubes or layers? The second uranium machine (G-II), a lattice of metal uranium cubes immersed in heavy water, a great success. The last years of the war, evacuation and survival. Occupation by the Allied armies, life in the Russian-controlled eastern zone of Germany. Hartwig's move to the new Federal German Republic, teaching first at a private engineering school, later state technical university (Fachhochschule). The 1950s atomic euphoria. | |
Note(s): |
Interview conducted by Mark Walker, 23 November 1985. Digital master copy saved to external hard drive, 2013. Loan copies may be made from digital copy. Georg Hartwig, born 1912. In German. Includes table of contents. |
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Subject(s): |
Diebner, Kurt Döpel, Robert Hartwig, Georg Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976 Carl Zeiss (Firm : 1846) Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin Potsdam Observatory. United States. Army. Weapons Testing Laboratory. Universität Göttingen Universität Leipzig Astrophysics Atomic bomb Deuterium oxide Nuclear physics Nuclear reactors Radiation -- Protective agents Uranium World War, 1939-1945 -- Science World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Refugees |
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Library Classification: | OH 4658 | |
Held by: | American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA | |
Restrictions on Access: |
In footnotes or endnotes please cite AIP interviews like this: Interview of Georg Hartwig by Mark Walker on 1985 November 23, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA, http://repository.aip.org/islandora/object/nbla:266572 Oral history interview may be read by any researcher with an approved access application on file, but copies and quotes may not be made, except with the written permission of the Institute. |
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