Short biography and Publications by Paul Harteck (1902-1985)
Short biography
1902 | born on 20 July 1902 in Vienna |
1926 | Doctorate with Max Bodenstein in Berlin |
1926-1927 | Assistant at Arnold Eucken in Breslau |
1928-1933 | Assistant to Fritz Haber at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry in Berlin-Dahlem |
1931 | Habilitation in Berlin |
1933-1934 | Rockefeller-Stipendiat wtih Ernest Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratorium in Cambridge |
1934-1951 | Director of the Institute for Physical Chemistry at the University of Hamburg |
1937-1945 | Consultant for chemical explosives for the German Army Ordnance Office |
1939-1945 | Participation in the German uranium project ("Uranium Association") |
1945-1946 | Internment at the British Farm Hall |
1946-1947 | Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Hamburg |
1947-1949 | Vice President of the Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences in Hamburg |
1948-1950 | Rector of the University of Hamburg |
1950-1951 | Member of the Standing Committee of the German Bunsen Society |
1951-1952 | Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in Troy/New York (guestprofessor) |
1952 | short term return to Hamburg |
1952-1952 | Chairman of the scientific association in Hamburg |
1952-1982 | Distinguished Research Professor am Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in Troy/New York |
1956-1985 | External Scientific Member at the Fritz-Haber-Institut |
1957-1985 | Honorary member of the Société Chimique de Belgique |
1957 | Jean-Servais-Stas-Medal |
1961 | Wilhelm-Exner-Medal |
1966 | Honorary doctorate of the University of Bonn |
1977 | William-H.-Wiley-Distinguished-Faculty-Award of the Rensselear Polytechnic Institute |
1977 | Alfried-Krupp-von-Bohlen-und-Halbach-Prize |
1978 | large golden medal for services to the Republic of Austria |
1979 | Chemical-Pioneer-Award of the American Institute of Chemists |
1985 | died January 22, 1985 in Santa Barbara, California |
Further Information
- Heavy water and centrifuges. Paul Harteck in Hamburg (1934-1951)
Michael Schaaf, Censis Report 33-99 - Entry in the Hamburg catalogue of professors
- Schriften von Paul Harteck, 1927-1979 (Archiv Rensselear Polytechnic Institute)
Alternative name spellings
- Paul Gabriel Karl Josef Maria Harteck
- Paul Karl Josef Maria Harteck
- Paul Harteck
- P. Harteck
- Paul Hnatek (tschechische Orginalform des Familiennamens)
Publications and biographies
(Only publications up to the end of the Hamburg period (1952) are listed in the Institute Index)
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