Paul Karl Maria Harteck (20 July 1902 – 22 January 1985) was an Austrian physical chemist. In 1945 under Operation Epsilon in "the big sweep" throughout Germany, Harteck was arrested by the allied British and American Armed Forces for suspicion of aiding the Nazis in their nuclear weapons program and he was incarcerated at Farm Hall, an ...

Jan 24, 1985 · Dr. Paul Harteck, co-discoverer in 1934 of tritium, the heaviest form of hydrogen, and later co-designer of the world's largest atmospheric simulation chamber, died Monday at his home...

From 1934-1951 he was Professor and Director of the Institute for Physical Chemistry, University of Hamburg. His work at Hamburg included the production and reactions of atomic oxygen and the discovery of tritium in the earth’s atmosphere.

…Oliphant, and German physical chemist Paul Harteck bombarded deuterium with deuterons, producing tritium in the first fusion reaction.

The Paul Harteck papers (MC 17) contain correspondence, writings and research notes, miscellaneous family materials, and photographs documenting Harteck’s professional activities in both Germany and the United States from the late 1920’s to the 1970’s.

Paul Karl Maria Harteck, né le 20 juillet 1902 et mort le 22 janvier 1985, est un physicien autrichien spécialiste de chimie physique. En 1934, il est le codécouvreur du tritium 1.

Assistant to Fritz Haber in Universität Berlin; study with Ernest Rutherford in England. Physical chemistry as boundary area between nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry. Harteck's working style, taking up new topics as a type of training.

Der Physikochemiker Paul Harteck in Hamburg (1934-1951). Festvortrag anläßlich der Lehrpreisverleihung des Fachbereichs Physik der Universität Hamburg am 4. Februar 1999 im Hörsaal I, Jungiusstraße 9. Farm-Hall-Berichte. Die abgehörten Gespräche der 1945/46 in England internierten deutschen Atomwissenschaftler. Ein Kommentar. Operation Epsilon.

Paul Harteck (1902-1985) A physical chemist educated at Vienna and Berlin, Harteck worked on processes for extracting U-235 and was interested in developing techniques for more efficiently making heavy water, a substance he considered as important as …

Paul Karl Josef Maria Harteck (* 20. Juli 1902 in Wien; † 22. Januar 1985 in Santa Barbara, Kalifornien) war ein österreichischer Physikochemiker. Harteck besuchte das Wiener Schottengymnasium und studierte anschließend in Wien und Berlin Chemie.