Hans Kronberger CBE

CBE

CBE and C.B.E. are abbreviations for "Commander of the Order of the British Empire", a grade in the Order of the British Empire.Other uses include:* Chemical and Biochemical Engineering...

, FRS (28 July 1920, Linz

Linz

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, Austria

Austria

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 - 29 September 1970) was a British physicist.

Education

• King's College, University of Durham; BSc 1944
• University of Birmingham
  University of Birmingham
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  ; Ph.D 1948

Career

Escaping from Austria he studied in Durham. He was interned as an enemy alien, 1940-2.

He joined the war-time Atomic Energy Team ("Tube Alloys") in 1944 (working with Francis Simon

Francis Simon

Sir Francis Simon, born Franz Eugen Simon , was a German and later British physical chemist and physicist who devised the 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:He was born to a...

), AERE, Harwell in 1946 and the Industrial Group of Atomic Energy Department, 1951. He was Head of the UKAEA Diffusion Plant Laboratories, Capenhurst, 1953; Chief Physicist, UKAEA (Industrial Group), Risley, 1956; Director of Research and Development, UKAEA (Dev. & Eng. Group), 1958-1960; Deputy Managing Director, UKAEA (Reactor Group), 1960-1964, Scientist-in-Chief, 1964-1968. He was appointed Member for Reactor Development, UKAEA, in 1969.

Honours

• Fellow of the Institute of Physics
  Institute of Physics
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  , 1955
• FRS, 1965
• CBE, 1966
• Leverhulme Medal, 1969