Walther Gerlach Nuclear Physics Atomic KWG WW2 Scientist Autograph

CHAU2154  This is a vintage letter fully hand written by Professor Dr Walter Gerlach which was part of a collection from a medical student in the 1970s and 80s writing to historic doctors and surgeons. It is approx 8" x 6" in mint condition - please note the background sheet also shown in the listing is just from the album page and for reference but I will send to the purchaser but the letter is a separate loose item which is from 1973 and is fully hand written and signed by Professor Goldblatt. Please see all my other scientist and surgeon autographs from this same collection.

Walther Gerlach was a German physicist who co-discovered, through laboratory experiment, spin quantization in a magnetic field, the SternGerlach effect. The experiment was conceived by Otto Stern in 1921 and successfully conducted first by Gerlach in early 1922. From 1937 until 1945, Gerlach was a member of the supervisory board of the Kaiser-WilhelmGesellschaft (KWG) .On 1 January 1944, Gerlach officially became head of the physics section of the Reichsforschungsrat (RFR, Reich Research Council) and Bevollmächtigter (plenipotentiary) of nuclear physics, replacing Abraham Esau. In April of that year, he founded the Reichsberichte für Physik, which were official reports appearing as supplements to the Physikalische Zeitschrift. After 1946, he continued to be an influential official in its successor organization after World War II, the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG).From May 1945, Gerlach was interned in France and Belgium by British and American Armed Forces under Operation Alsos. From July of that year to January 1946, he was interned in England at Farm Hall under Operation Epsilon, which interned 10 German scientists who were thought to have participated in the development of atomic weapons.