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Simon, Sir Francis (Eugen)
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| (1893–1956)
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| Physicist, born in Berlin, Germany. He studied at the universities of Munich, Göttingen, and Berlin, and served in World War 1. Nazism forced him to leave his chair at Wrocław, Poland (formerly Breslau, Prussia), and he moved to the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, at the invitation of Frederick Lindemann (Lord Cherwell). He became reader in thermodynamics in 1935, and succeeded Lindemann as professor in 1956. He verified experimentally the third law of thermodynamics, and under his influence Oxford became a centre for low-temperature physics. |
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