11 Facts About Willibald Jentschke

Willibald Jentschke was an Austrian-German experimental nuclear physicist.

Willibald Jentschke retired from the University of Hamburg in 1980.

Willibald Jentschke received his doctorate under Georg Stetter in 1935.

From 1937 to 1942, Willibald Jentschke was a teaching assistant to Georg Stetter at the University of Vienna.

From 1946 to 1947, Willibald Jentschke was a lecturer at the University of Innsbruck.

Willibald Jentschke emigrated to the United States under Operation Paperclip, where he worked at the Air Force Materiel Command, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, from 1947 to 1948.

On his way to the United States, Willibald Jentschke wrote to Walther Bothe that his reasons for going there was to do real scientific work, which then not possible in Austria and Germany.

In 1956, Willibald Jentschke became an ordinarius Professor of Physics at the University of Hamburg.

Willibald Jentschke was chairman of the DESY Board of Directors from 1959 to 1970, and for many years the director of the Second Institute of Experimental Physics at the University of Hamburg.

In 1971, Willibald Jentschke accepted the post as Director General of CERN Laboratory I ; John Adams was Director General of the neighboring CERN Laboratory II, where the new SPS proton synchrotron was being constructed.

Professor Willibald Jentschke was the recipient of a number of honors:.