19 Facts About Heinz Pose

Heinz Ferdinand Hermann Pose, best known as Heinz Pose, was a German nuclear physicist and a professor of physics at the Technical University Dresden.

Heinz Pose was born in Konigsberg in Prussia, German Empire, which is known as Kaliningrad in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, on 10 April 1905.

The Russian Wikipedia sources noted his name as Rudolf Heinz Pose, and mentioned in text written by Roger Stuewer in 2018.

Heinz Pose attended the University of Konigsberg where he studied physics; after graduation, Heinz Pose attended the graduate schools in physics at the University of Munich, and at the University of Gottingen.

From 1928 Heinz Pose was an unsalaried assistant and from 1930 a regular assistant to the physicist Gerhard Hoffmann, who was doing research in nuclear reaction measurements.

In 1929, Heinz Pose studied the nuclear reactions of aluminum nuclei bombarded with alpha particles.

Heinz Pose's experiments showed the existence of discrete energy levels in the nucleus.

Heinz Pose's pioneering work described for the first time the effect of resonance transformation in a nuclear process.

Heinz Pose continued to study these nuclear reactions in other light nuclei through the 1930s.

Heinz Pose worked with Werner Maurer on proof of spontaneous neutron emission of uranium and thorium.

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

Heinz Pose was to establish and head Laboratory V in Obninsk.

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

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

Since Heinz Pose was on the staff of the German nuclear energy project Uranverein, he had intimate knowledge of scientists who would be useful as staff and laboratory heads in his facility in Obninsk.

However, Heinz Pose remained at Laboratory V until 1955, when he then went to the Laboratory for Nuclear Problems, now the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, in Dubna.

In 1957, while still at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Heinz Pose became a professor for special areas of nuclear physics at Technische Hochschule Dresden.

In 1959 Heinz Pose returned to Germany and settled in Dresden, East Germany.

At the close of World War II, Heinz Pose's brother, Werner, was a prisoner of war of the Russians.