Francis Simon
German-British chemist · United Kingdom · On the map · Scientists · Lived 1893 to 1956 · aged 63
Sir Francis Simon, was a German and later British physical chemist and physicist who devised the gaseous diffusion method, and confirmed its feasibility, of separating the isotope Uranium-235 and thus made a major contribution to the creation of the atomic bomb.
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1956Died31 October 1956Guthrie LectureAward1950Kamerlingh Onnes AwardAward1948Rumford MedalAward1893Born2 July 1893
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Lived 1893 to 1956 · aged 63
