Felix Weinberg ( born Felix Jiri Weinberg ; April 2, 1928 , Usti nad Labem [1] , Czechoslovakia - December 5, 2012 , London [2] , England ) - British physicist , specialist in the field of combustion physics. Member of the Royal Society of London ( 1983 ). Professor Emeritus ( EMERIT ) at Imperial College London .
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| Date of Birth | April 2, 1928 |
| Place of Birth | Usti nad Labem , Czechoslovakia |
| Date of death | December 5, 2012 (84 years old) |
| Place of death | London england |
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| Scientific field | physics , burning |
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| Awards and prizes | Bernard Lewis Gold Medal (1980), Rumford Medal (1988) |
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Biography
Felix Weinberg was born on April 2, 1928 in the city of Usti nad Labem in the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia in the family of Victor Weinberg and Nelly Maria Altschul [3] . During the Second World War , as a teenager, he spent several years in Auschwitz , Buchenwald and other Nazi concentration camps due to Jewish descent. He arrived in Great Britain immediately after the end of the war.
Unable to attend school during the war, he attended classes at the University of London as a volunteer. In 1951, he was admitted to Imperial College London as a laboratory assistant, and already in 1954 he defended his thesis in which he developed new optical methods for analyzing the structure of a flame. Since 1967, he worked as a professor of combustion physics at Imperial College London.
As one of the survivors in the concentration camps, he was extremely skeptical about the fictional memoirs about the Holocaust :
I have always sought to avoid reading the Holocaust literature and I find some of the recent fictional stories that appear to be genuine to be absolutely outrageous. This is tantamount to desecration of military graves [4] .
Original textI have always tended to avoid Holocaust literature and find some of the recent fictional accounts masquerading as true stories profoundly disturbing. It is tantamount to desecrating war graves.
His own account of his childhood years and his life in Nazi concentration camps was published under the title "Memoirs of a Teenager 30529" in 2013 shortly after his death [1] .
Scientific Achievements
At the beginning of his career, Weinberg was engaged in the development of optical methods for combustion analysis. In 1963, his monograph “Optics of Flame” [5] was published.
In the 1960s, he studied the interaction of flame with an electric field, including plasma jets, which can be used to clean combustion products from harmful emissions (nitrogen oxides). The research results were summarized in the book “Electrical Aspects of Combustion” [6] [7], published in 1969.
In the early 1970s, Weinberg proposed the concept of combustion devices with heat recirculation, which makes it possible to burn mixtures with a low fuel content and thereby significantly reduce harmful emissions [8] .
For many years, he took part in the activities of the and was its director.
Rewards
- 1972 - silver medal of the International Institute of Combustion
- 1980 - Bernard Lewis gold medal of the International Institute of Combustion for outstanding research in the field of combustion, in particular for the adaptation of physical measurement methods to processes in a flame [9]
- 1988 - Rumford Medal of the Royal Society of London [10]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Felix Weinberg. Boy 30529: A Memoir . - Verso Books, 2013 .-- 192 p. - ISBN 9781781680780 .
- ↑ Rafael Kandiyoti, Hans Michels . Tribute: Felix Weinberg (English) , Imperial College London (01/07/2013). Date of treatment August 25, 2013.
- ↑ Felix Weinberg. Chapter 1. The Golden Years // Boy 30529: A Memoir. - Verso Books, 2013 .-- 192 p. - ISBN 9781781680780 .
- ↑ Guy Walters . Could there be anything more twisted than these Holocaust fantasists? How more and more people are making up memoirs about witnessing Nazi crimes (English) , MailOnline (06/21/2013). Date of treatment August 25, 2013.
- ↑ Weinberg FJ Optics of Flames: Including Methods for the Study of Refractive Index Fields in Combustion and Aerodynamics. - Butterworths, 1963. - 251 p.
- ↑ Lauton J., Weinberg F. Electrical aspects of combustion. - M .: Energy, 1976 .-- 296 p.
- ↑ Lawton J., Weinberg FJ Electrical aspects of combustion. - Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. - 355 p.
- ↑ Weinberg FJ Combustion temperatures: the future? (Eng.) // Nature. - 1971. - Vol. 233, no. 5317 . - P. 239-241. - DOI : 10.1038 / 233239a0 . - PMID 16063312 .
- ↑ Bernard Lewis Gold Medal . The Combustion Institute. Date of treatment June 5, 2018.
- ↑ 80th Birthday Celebration for Professor Felix Weinberg, at the Chemical Engineering Department, Imperial College London, April 23, 2008 (unavailable link) . The Combustion Institute (British Section). Date of treatment August 25, 2013. Archived February 22, 2014.