J. Hans D. Jensen Facts
J. Hans D. Jensen Facts
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| Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen was born in Hamburg and was the son of a gardener. |
| From 1926 to 1931 he studied physics, mathematics and physical chemistry at the Universities of Hamburg and Freiburg. |
| In 1932 he received a PhD in physics from the University of Hamburg and became a scientific assistant at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University. |
| In 1936 he received a doctor of science degree from the University of Hamburg. |
| After Hitler came to power in 1930 a series of laws were passed which deeply affected the education system in Germany. |
| Jewish professors were dismissed and Christian professors were encouraged, and in cases obligated to join the Nazi party. |
| Jensen was an active member of the party from 1936. |
| In 1937 he became a professor at the Technische Hochschule in Hannover (now the University of Hannover). |
| 1941 was accepted a Professor at the University of Heidelberg. |
| Jensen was one of the members of the Nazi Uranium Club which was working to harness atomic energy for military purposes. |
| His part of the project involved the separation of uranium isotopes and he developed a double centrifuge to speed up the process. |
| In 1949 Jensen was working in Germany and Maria Goeppert-Mayer was working at the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago when they independently posited the shell model for the nucleus of an atom. |
| In 1955 they collaborated on the paper Elementary Theory of Nuclear Shell Structure. |
| In 1963 he and Goeppert-Mayer shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work. |
| The remaining half of the Nobel Prize went to Eugene Wigner for his earlier foundational work on the nucleus and elementary particles. |
| In 1952 he was a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology. |
| In 1953 he was a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study of the University of Indiana. |
| Jensen died in Heidelberg, Germany. |
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