SIMON, SIR FRANCIS EUGENE
- SIMON, SIR FRANCIS EUGENE
- SIMON, SIR FRANCIS EUGENE (1893–1956), physicist. Simon, who
was born in Berlin, served through World War I and was
awarded the Iron Cross for distinguished service. After the war he
continued at Berlin University and became research assistant to the
German chemist Walter Herman Nernst (1864–1941), as well as a lecturer
on low-temperature physics. In 1931 he became professor and director of
the laboratory for physical chemistry at the Technische Hochschule in
Breslau. In 1933 Simon was invited to the Clarendon Laboratory in
Oxford, where he built up one of the foremost low-temperature
laboratories in the world. In 1935 Simon was appointed university reader
(later to occupy a chair specially created in 1946) in thermodynamics.
During World War II, he was responsible for some key
research on an aspect of the manufacture of the atom bomb, although he
was classified as an "enemy alien." In 1941 he was elected a Fellow of
the Royal Society.
Simon was a vigorous campaigner for the proper use of science, the
avoidance of waste, and the utilization of scientists in public affairs.
From 1948 to 1951 he was scientific correspondent of the Financial
Times. He was knighted in 1955.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
N. Arms, A Prophet in Two Countries (1966); N. Kurti, in:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 4
(1958), 225–56.
(J. Edwin Holmstrom)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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