Helmut Volz

Helmut Volz (German: [fɔlts]; 1 August 1911 in Göppingen – 23 October 1978) was a German experimental nuclear physicist who worked on the German nuclear energy project during World War II. In the latter years of World War II, he became a professor at Erlangen University. He declined to take a position offered to him in the United States after the war, and he continued his teaching and research at Erlangen.

From 1929 to 1933, Volz studied at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He received his doctorate in 1935 under Hans Geiger at the University of Tübingen.

From 1935 to 1937, Volz worked at and studied physics at the Institut für theoretische Physik of the Universität Leipzig. From 1937 to 1944, Volz was a teaching assistant to Hans Geiger at the Technische Hochschule Berlin (today, the Technische Universität Berlin, in Berlin-Charlottenburg. During this period, Volz worked on the German nuclear energy project, also called the Uranverein (Uranium Club). He specialized in experimental studies of neutron absorption in uranium, conducted with another former student of Geiger, Otto Haxel. From 1943 to 1944, he was also a lecturer at the Technische Hochschule Berlin.

From 1944, Volz was an extraordinarius professor (professor without a chair) at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

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