Friedrich Paneth
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Friedrich Adolf Paneth (1887, Vienna - 1958) was an Austrian-born British chemist. Fleeing the Nazis, he escaped to Britain and became a British citizen in 1939.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1947.
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- Assistant in Radium Research Institute attached to Vienna Academy of Science, 1912
- Assistant professor, University of Hamburg, 1919
- Head of inorganic department of chemical institute, Berlin University, 1922
- Head of chemical institute, Königsberg University, 1929
- Reader in atomic chemistry, Imperial College, London, 1938; among his assistants was Eugen Glueckauf
- Professor of chemistry, University of Durham, 1939
- Head of chemistry division of joint British-Canadian atomic energy team in Montreal, 1943-5
- Returned to Durham and established Londonderry Laboratory for radio-chemistry, heading it until retirement, 1953
He was considered the greatest authority of his time on volatile hydrides, and also made important contributions to the study of the stratosphere.
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