Hans Suess
| Hans Eduard Suess | |
|---|---|
| Born |
29 December 1909 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | 20 September 1993 (aged 83) La Jolla, California, USA |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna |
| Known for | Suess effect |
| Notable awards | V. M. Goldschmidt Award (1974) |
Hans Eduard Suess (December 16, 1909 – September 20, 1993) was an Austrian born American physical chemist and nuclear physicist. He was a grandson of the Austrian geologist Eduard Suess.
Suess earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Vienna in 1935. During World War II, he was part of a team of German scientists studying nuclear power and was advisor to the production of heavy water in a Norwegian plant (see Operation Gunnerside).
After the war, he collaborated on the shell model of the atomic nucleus with future (1963) Nobel Prize winner Hans Jensen.
In 1950, Suess emigrated to the United States. He did research in the field of cosmochemistry, investigating the abundance of certain elements in meteorites with Harold Urey (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1934) at the University of Chicago. In 1955, Suess was recruited for the faculty of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and in 1958 he became one of the four founding faculty members of the University of California, San Diego. He remained at UCSD as Professor until 1977 and as Emeritus Professor thereafter. He established a laboratory at UCSD for carbon-14 determinations, where he trained students including Ellen R.M. Druffel, now the Fred Kavli Professor of Earth System Science at University of California, Irvine.
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