Kasimir fajans biography definition

(b. Warsaw, Russian Poland, 27 May 1887; d. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 18 May 1975)

chemistry.

The son of Herman Fajans, a merchant, and Wanda Wolberg, Kasimir Fajans graduated from high school in Warsaw (1904), and then left Russian Poland to study at the universities of Leipzig (bachelor’s degree, 1907) and Heidelberg (doctorate, 1909).

Then came a year of research at Zurich, followed by a second research year (1910–1911) in Ernest Rutherford’s laboratory at the University of Manchester. In 1910 Fajans married Salomea Kaplan, a physician.

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They had two sons, Edgar and Stefan.

Rutherford and his laboratory attracted some of the best researchers in radioactivity. Since the subject straddled the line between physics and chemistry, generally at least one radiochemist was to be found there.

Fajans’ interest in radioactivity had been ignited in 1909 by Philipp Lenard. Who suggested that he report on the subject for his physics colloquium. This was far afield from the