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Joseph Joshua Weiss (J J Weiss) (30 August 1905 - 9 April 1972) 〔Schicksale und Karrieren: Gedenkbuch für die von den Nationalsozialisten aus der Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft vertriebenen Forscherinnen und Forscher, by Reinhard Rürup, Michael Schüring, Wallstein Verlag, 2008. Page 353.〕 was a Jewish-Austrian 〔Ute Deichmann, Flüchten, Mitmachen, Vergessen. Chemiker und Biochemiker im Nationalsozialismus, Weinheim 2001: Wiley/VCH.〕 chemist and Professor at the Newcastle University. He was a pioneer in the field of radiation and photochemistry Weiss was born in 1905 in Austria. He had obtained a Dipl.Ing. degree in the Technische Hochschule in Vienna. He entered the Textile Institute at Sorau in 1928 and was the head of the chemistry department there. He left his post two years later to become an assistant to the German chemist Fritz Haber at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Elektrochemistry in Berlin. Together they discovered the Haber–Weiss reaction. He fled with Haber (who was born Jewish) from Nazi Germany to Cambridge in 1933. He later moved to University College London, where he got his PhD in 1935 from Prof Frederick George Donnan.〔(Dan Meisel Chemistry Genealogy )〕 in 1937 he started teaching at the King's College in Durham, which later became the Newcastle University. In 1956 he was appointed a professor of Radiation Chemistry at the Newcastle University In 1968 he received an honorary degree from the Technical University of Berlin. In 1970 he received the Marie Curie Medal of the Curie Institute. In 1972 the Association for Radiation Research established the Weiss Medal, named after him. In 1942 he married Frances Sonia Lawson. == See also == * ''Schicksale und Karrieren: Gedenkbuch für die von den Nationalsozialisten aus der Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft vertriebenen Forscherinnen und Forscher'', by Reinhard Rürup, Michael Schüring, Wallstein Verlag, 2008. Page 353. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joseph Joshua Weiss」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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