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Ernst Rexer was born on 2 April, 1902 in Stuttgart, German Empire, is an Ernst Rexer was German nuclear physicist German nuclear physicist. Discover Ernst Rexer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?

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Age 81 years old
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Born 2 April, 1902
Birthday 2 April
Birthplace Stuttgart, German Empire
Date of death 14 May, 1983
Died Place Dresden, East Germany (present-day Germany)
Nationality Germany

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1902

Ernst Rexer (2 April 1902 – 14 May 1983) was a German nuclear physicist.

He worked on the German nuclear energy program during World War II.

After the war, he was sent to Laboratory V, in Obninsk, to work on the Soviet atomic bomb project.

1923

In 1923, Rexer began studies in chemistry and physics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

1926

In 1926 he completed the Chemikerverbandsexamen (Chemist Federation exam).

From 1926 to 1929, he worked in the Osram Werke (Osram Works), in Weisswasser and Berlin.

1929

In 1929, he received his doctorate from the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (today, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

After receipt of his doctorate in 1929, Rexer became an associate assistant (außerplanmäßiger Assistant) at the Institut für Theoretische Physik (Institute for Theoretical Physics) at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.

1936

In 1936, he completed his Habilitation there, with an Habilitationsschrift on the physics of crystals.

1937

In 1937, he joined the faculty at Halle as a Dozent (lecturer).

1938

In 1938, Rexer took a position in the armaments industry where he investigated plastics.

1939

The German nuclear energy project, also known as the Uranverein (Uranium Club), was initiated in 1939, shortly after the discovery of nuclear fission.

By September, the Heereswaffenamt (HWA, Army Ordnance Office) squeezed out the Reichsforschungsrat (RFR, Reich Research Council) of the Reichserziehungsministerium (REM, Reich Ministry of Education) and began its control over the project, under the direction of Kurt Diebner.

Rexer was brought into the project.

1942

By 1942 it was apparent that the nuclear energy project would not make a decisive contribution to ending the war effort in the near term and HWA control of the project was transferred to the RFR.

At that time, Rexer and his colleagues, including Heinz Pose, were transferred to the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (PTR).

Abraham Esau was President of the PTR, and he took control of the Uranverein in December, when he was appointed Plenipotentiary (Bevollmächtiger) for Nuclear Physics.

While Rexer was at the PTR, some of the research was carried out at the Versuchsstelle (testing station) of the HWA in Gottow; Kurt Diebner, was director of the facility.

The testing station is where Rexer, F. Berkei, W. Borrmann, W. Czulius, Kurt Diebner, Georg Hartwig, Karl-Heinz Höcker, Walter Herrmann, and Heinz Pose, compared the effectiveness of neutron production in a paraffin-moderated reactor using uranium plates, rods, and cubes.

Internal reports (See section below: Internal Reports.) on their activities were classified Top Secret and had limited distribution.

The G-1 experiment performed at the HWA testing station had lattices of 6,800 uranium oxide cubes (about 25 tons) in the neutron moderator paraffin.

Their work verified Höcker's calculations that cubes were better than rods, and rods were better than plates.

1944

In 1944, Rexer was appointed professor at the Physikalischen Institut (Physics Institute) at the Universität Leipzig.

Near the close of World War II, the Soviet Union sent special search teams into Germany to locate and deport German nuclear scientists or any others who could be of use to the Soviet atomic bomb project.

The Russian Alsos teams were headed by NKVD Colonel General A. P. Zavenyagin and staffed with numerous scientists, from their only nuclear laboratory, attired in NKVD officer's uniforms.

1945

In the autumn of 1945, Pose was offered the opportunity to work in the Soviet Union, which he accepted.

1946

He arrived in the Soviet Union, with his family, in February 1946.

He was to establish and head Laboratory V (also known by the code name Malojaroslavets-10, after the nearby town by the same name) in Obninsk.

The scientific staff at Laboratory V was to be both Russian and German, the former being mostly political prisoners from the Gulag or exiles; this type of facility is known as a Sharashka.

(Laboratory B in Sungul’ was also a sharashka and its personnel worked on the Soviet atomic bomb project. Notable Germans at Laboratory B were Hans-Joachim Born, Alexander Catsch, Nikolaus Riehl, and Karl Zimmer. Notable Russians from the Gulag were N. V. Timofeev-Resovskij and S. A. Voznesenskij.)

On 5 March 1946, in order to staff his laboratory, Pose and NKVD General Kravchenko, along with two other officers, went to Germany for six months to hire scientists.

Additionally, Pose procured equipment from the companies AEG, Zeiss, Schott Jena, and Mansfeld, which were in the Russian occupation zone.

Pose planned 16 laboratories for his institute, which was to include a chemistry laboratory and eight laboratories.

Three heads of laboratories, Czulius, Herrmann, and Rexer, were Pose's colleagues who worked with him at the German Army's testing station in Gottow, under the Uranverein project.

(See below: Internal Reports.) Eight laboratories in the institute were:

In preparation for release from the Soviet Union, it was standard practice to put personnel into quarantine for a few years if they worked on projects related to the Soviet atomic bomb project, which Rexer did.

1956

In 1956, he was sent to East Germany, where he was a professor and director of the Institute for the Application of Radioactive Isotopes at the Technische Hochschule Dresden.

After quarantine, he was sent to the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR, German Democratic Republic) in 1956.

He was appointed extraordinarius professor and Director of the Institutes für die Anwendung radioaktiver Isotope (Institute for the Application of Radioactive Isotopes) at the Technische Hochschule Dresden (today, Technische Universität Dresden).

Other notable German scientists, who worked on the Soviet atomic bomb project and joined Rexer at the Technische Hochschule Dresden were Heinz Pose and two other physicists, Werner Hartmann and Heinz Barwich, who had been at Gustav Hertz's Institute G, in Agudseri (Agudzery).