Heinz Pose
| Heinz Pose | |
|---|---|
| Born | 10 April 1905 Königsberg, German Empire |
| Died | November 13, 1975 (aged 70) Dresden, East Germany (present-day Germany) |
| Residence | Dresden, East Germany |
| Citizenship | Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Fields | Nuclear Physics |
| Institutions |
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute Uranverein Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt Uranverein Waffenamt University of Leipzig Laboratory B in Sungul’ Joint Institute for Nuclear Research |
| Alma mater |
University of Königsberg Ludwig Maximilian University Georg-August University of Göttingen Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg |
| Doctoral advisor | Gustav Hertz |
| Known for |
German nuclear energy project Soviet atomic bomb project |
| Notable awards | War Merit Cross (1943) |
Rudolf Heinz Pose (10 April 1905 – 13 November 1975) was a German nuclear physicist.
He did pioneering work which contributed to the understanding nuclear energy levels. He worked on the German nuclear energy project Uranverein. After World War II, the Soviet Union sent him to establish and head Laboratory V in Obninsk. From 1957, he was at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia. He settled in East Germany in 1959, and he held teaching posts and directed nuclear physics institutes at the Technische Hochschule Dresden.
Pose studied physics, mathematics, and chemistry at the University of Königsberg, the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the Georg-August University of Göttingen, and the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. He received his doctorate at Halle, in 1928, under the Nobel laureate in Physics Gustav Hertz.
From 1928 Pose was an unsalaried assistant and from 1930 a regular assistant to the physicist Gerhard Hoffmann, who was doing research in nuclear reaction measurements. In 1929, Pose studied the nuclear reactions of aluminum nuclei bombarded with alpha particles. His experiments showed the existence of discrete energy levels in the nucleus. His pioneering work described for the first time the effect of resonance transformation in a nuclear process. On the basis of these works and his Habilitation, Pose was awarded a teaching contract for atomic physics in 1934. He continued to study these nuclear reactions in other light (low atomic number) nuclei through the 1930s. In 1939, he was awarded an unscheduled/adjunct (außerplanmäßige) professorship at Halle.
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