Max Steenbeck
German nuclear physicist (1904–1981)
Died aged 77AriesEast Germany
Biography
Max Christian Theodor Steenbeck (21 March 1904 – 15 December 1981) was a German nuclear physicist who invented the betatron in 1934 during his employment at the Siemens AG.
After the World War II, Steenbeck was taken into the Soviet custody and held in Russia where he was one of many German nuclear physicists in the Soviet program of nuclear weapons. After accepting the teaching position at the University of Jena, Steenback was repatriated back to Germany where he devoted his career in teaching courses in university academia.
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Career highlights
Employers / organisations
- University of Jena
Awards & honours (5)
- Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
- Hervorragender Wissenschaftler des Volkes
- National Prize of East Germany
- Lomonosov Gold Medal
- Order of Friendship of Peoples
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- Max Steenbeck died on December 15, 1981 at the age of 77.
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- Max Steenbeck was born on March 21, 1904.
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- Max Steenbeck was born in Kiel.
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- Max Steenbeck's zodiac sign is Aries.
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- Max Steenbeck is a citizen of East Germany.
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- Max Steenbeck is known as physicist, university teacher, nuclear physicist.
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