Justus Muhlenpfordt

Physicist

Birthday April 22, 1911

Birth Sign Taurus

Birthplace Germany

DEATH DATE Oct 2, 2000 (89)

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About

German nuclear scientist who became a Corresponding Member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften in 1969. He worked for both the German nuclear energy project and the Soviet atomic bomb project.

Before Fame

He earned a doctorate from Technische Hochschule Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig in 1936.

Trivia

He had an x-ray tube with a cross-shaped anode named after him.

Family Life

His father was an architect, his mother was a painter and his maternal grandfather was the founder of Drägerwerk AG, Henry Drager.

Associated With

Another German scientist like him was Albert Einstein.