Francis simon biography

Sir Francis Simon CBE (2 July 1893 – 31 October 1956), was a.
Sir Francis Simon CBE, 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.
Franz Eugen Simon was born into a wealthy Jewish merchant family in Berlin in 1893.

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Simon, Franz Eugen (Francis)

(b. Berlin, Germany, 2 July 1893; d. Oxford, England, 31 October 1956)

physics.

The son of a wealthy estate dealer, Simon, and his two sisters, grew up in comparative affluence. Although he received a classical education, he developed a strong interest in science; and in 1912 he went to Munich to read physics. A year later he was called up for military service; and from 1914 to 1918 he served as lieutenant in the field artillery. He resumed his studies at the University of Berlin in 1919, and the following year he started work for his Ph.D. under the supervision of Nernst. His dissertation concerned the measurement of specific heats at low temperatures, a line of research that was closely connected with Nernst’s heat theorem, now generally known as the third law of thermodynamics. The subject remained the basis of Simon’s scientific interest throughout his life. After obtaining his doctorate in 1921, Simon remained at Berlin, where in 1924 he became Privatdozent and, three years later, associate professor. It was during this period that his

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Francis Simon

German-British chemist

For the footballer, see Frank Simon.

Sir Francis SimonCBE (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.

Early life

Born Franz Eugen Simon to a Jewish family in Berlin, Franz was the son of Ernst Simon and Anna Mendelssohn, daughter of the mathematician Philibert Mendelssohn. Two of his cousins, Kurt Mendelssohn and Heinrich Mendelssohn, were also scientists. He won the Iron Cross First Class during World War I. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Berlin, working in the research group of Walther Nernst on low-temperature physics related to the Nernst Heat Theorem, which is one statement of the Third law of thermodynamics, and is sometimes referred to as the Nernst-Simon Heat Theorem.^[2] In 1931 he was appointed Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Technische Hochschule o

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FRANCIS SIMON

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