Joseph Weiss ( German Joseph Weiss , during the British period Joseph Joshua Weiss , English Joseph Joshua Weiss ; August 30, 1905 , Vienna - April 9, 1972 , Newcastle upon Tyne ) - Austrian-British chemist.
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He graduated from the Faculty of Technical Chemistry of the Vienna Higher Technical School ( 1928 ), in the same year, under the supervision of Emil Abel, he defended his dissertation “Kinetics of Nitric Acid Oxidation”. Then for three years he taught chemistry at the Textile Institute in Zorau (now Zary , Poland ). In 1930 he entered as an assistant to Fritz Haber at the Berlin Institute of Physical Chemistry. In 1931 , together with his mentor, he described a chain reaction, called the Haber-Weiss Reaction . In 1933 , when the Nazis came to power, he was dismissed from the institute due to Jewish descent and emigrated to the UK, where he lived the rest of his life. He worked at Cambridge University ( 1933 - 1934 ), London University College ( 1934 - 1937 ), Durham University ( 1937 - 1939 ). With the outbreak of World War II he was interned as an Austrian citizen. After his release, he taught at Newcastle University , since 1956 , professor. In 1970 , he retired.
The main work of Weiss is in the field of physical chemistry, photochemistry, radiobiology. In 1960 , he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Berlin Technical University ; in 1970 , he was awarded the Marie Curie Medal.
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- ↑ 1 2 3 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 1020253053 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
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- Joseph Joshua Weiss // Reinhard Rürup, Michael Schüring. Schicksale und Karrieren: Gedenkbuch für die von den Nationalsozialisten aus der Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft vertriebenen Forscherinnen und Forscher - Wallstein Verlag, 2008 .-- P. 353-355. (German)