Heinz Barwich, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Heinz Barwich

German physicist

Date of Birth: 22-Jul-1911

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 10-Apr-1966

Profession: physicist, university teacher, nuclear physicist

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Heinz Barwich (22 July 1911 – 10 April 1966) was a German nuclear physicist.
He was deputy director of the Siemens Research Laboratory II in Berlin.
At the close of World War II, he followed the decision of Gustav Hertz, to go to the Soviet Union for ten years to work on the Soviet atomic bomb project, for which he received the Stalin Prize.
He was director of the Zentralinstitut für Kernforschung (Central Institute for Nuclear Research) at Rossendorf near Dresden.
For a few years he was director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia.
In 1964 he defected to the West.