Hans Suess

Suess earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University Of Vienna in 1935. During World War II , he was part of a team of German scientists studying Atomic Energy and was advisor to the production of Heavy Water in a Norwegian plant (see Operation Gunnerside ).

After the war, he collaborated on the Shell Model of the Atomic Nucleus with future Nobel Prize In Physics (1963) Hans Jensen .

In 1950 Suess emigrated to the United States . He did research in the field of Cosmochemistry , investigating the Abundance of certain elements in meteorites with Harold Urey ( Nobel Prize In Chemistry , 1934) at the University Of Chicago .

Suess' most recent research was focused on the distribution of Carbon-14 and Tritium in the oceans and atmosphere. On basis of Radiocarbon analyses of annual growth-rings of trees he contributed to

the study of the magnitude of the dilution of atmospheric radiocarbon by carbon dioxide from fossil fuels burned since the industrial revolution. This dilution is known as the ''Suess effect'' (see articles about the anthropogenic Greenhouse Effect ).

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Robert Jungk in ''Brighter Than a Thousand Suns'' (Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1958), quotes Suess about the production of heavy water by the Vemork Plant . From page 110: ''"... Jomar Brun, a former technical manager of the ... heavy water works at Rjukan in Norway ... stated that he had been told by Hans Suess, the German atomic expert employed there, that production ... could not attain the dimensions important for war production in much less than five years."'' Jomar Brun fled to Sweden after the occupation by German troops in 1940. Brun's letters (1950 - 1987), archived in ''Hans Suess Papers'' :''Series 2, Correspondence:b4/f29'', contain a discussion of secret war operations and Brun's role in the production of heavy water.

Hitler's Sunken Secret, a NOVA production airing in November 2005 undertakes a forensics approach to evaluate the heavy water threat.

Brun, Jomar. ''Brennpunkt Vemork 1940-1945''. ISBN 8200068641, 119 pages (1985), Universitetsforlaget.

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