Max Steenbeck

Physicist

Birthday March 21, 1904

Birth Sign Aries

Birthplace Germany

DEATH DATE Dec 15, 1981 (77)

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About

German physicist who invented the betatron in 1934, and worked on the Soviet atomic bomb project after World War II. He later returned to East Germany during the Cold War and continued to work in nuclear physics.

Before Fame

He studied chemistry and physics from 1922 to 1927 at the University of Kiel, and received a doctorate in 1929.

Trivia

He has published many books including Probleme und Ergebnisse der Elektro- und Magnetohydrodynamik in 1961.

Family Life

His family came from Kiel.

Associated With

He is a German scientist like Albert Einstein.