Justus Mühlenpfordt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Justus Mühlenpfordt

German physicist

Date of Birth: 22-Apr-1911

Place of Birth: Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Date of Death: 02-Oct-2000

Profession: physicist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Justus Mühlenpfordt (22 April 1911 – 2 October 2000) was a German nuclear physicist.
He received his doctorate from the Technische Hochschule Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, in 1936.
He then worked in Gustav Hertz's laboratory at Siemens.
In 1945, he was sent to Institute G, near Sukhumi and under the directorship of Hertz, to work on the Soviet atomic bomb project.
Released from Russia, Mühlenpfordt arrived in East Germany in 1955.
He was appointed director of the Institut für physikalische Stofftrennung of the Academy of Sciences, in Leipzig.
From 1969 until his retirement in 1974, Mühlenpfordt was director of the Forschungsbereiches Kern- und Istopentechnik der Akademie.