Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen (June 25, 1907 in Hamburg – February 11, 1973 in Heidelberg) was a German nuclear physicist. During World War II, he worked on the German nuclear energy project, also known as the Uranium Club, in which he made contributions to the separation of uranium isotopes. After the war, he was a professor at the University of Heidelberg. He was a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the Institute for Advan...
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Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen (June 25, 1907 in Hamburg – February 11, 1973 in Heidelberg) was a German nuclear physicist. During World War II, he worked on the German nuclear energy project, also known as the Uranium Club, in which he made contributions to the separation of uranium isotopes. After the war, he was a professor at the University of Heidelberg. He was a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the Institute for Advanced Study, Indiana University, and the California Institute of Technology. Jensen shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physics with Maria Göppert-Mayer for their proposal of the shell nuclear model.
Jensen studied physics, mathematics, physical chemistry, and philosophy at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the University of Hamburg from 1926 to 1931, and he received his doctorate at the latter in 1932 under Wilhelm Lenz. Jensen completed his Habilitation in 1936 at the University of Hamburg.
In 1937, Jensen was Privatdozent ...
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