While at the KWIC, Droste contributed to the German nuclear energy project, also known as the Uranverein (Uranium Club). įrom 1933 to 1942, von Droste was a scientific assistant ( Mitarbeiter) at the KWIC, where Otto Hahn was the director and until JLise Meitner headed a department. From 1937, he was a member of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ( NSDAP, National Socialist Workers Party). Career įrom 1933, von Droste was a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA). His thesis advisor was Lise Meitner, who was an adjunct professor ( nichtbeamteter außerordentlicher Professor) at this University of Berlin and directed doctoral research in her own section at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Chemie, in Berlin-Dahlem. He was a Freiherr of the Westphalian noble family Droste zu Vischering.įrom 1926 to 1933, Droste studied at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin, at which he received his doctorate in 1933. After the war, he worked at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (Federal Physical and Technical Institute and also held a position at the Technical University of Braunschweig. In the latter years of the war, he worked at the Reich’s University of Strassburg. During World War II, he participated in the German nuclear energy project, also known as the Uranverein (Uranium Society or Uranium Club). He independently predicted that nuclear fission would release a large amount of energy. He worked at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry (KWIC). Gottfried Freiherr von Droste zu Vischering-Padberg, was a German physical chemist. OL2953279W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.76 Pages 570 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0585055246 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:24:29 Boxid IA173701 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Berkeley, Calif.

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