Eugen Glueckauf

Who was Eugen Glueckauf?

Eugen Glueckauf FRS was a German-born British expert on nuclear power.

Glueckauf receiving his doctorate in 1932 from the Technische Hochschule, Berlin. On April 1, 1933 he was fired from his research because of his Jewish heritage. Shortly thereafter he escaped from the Nazis to London. There, he was able to find work as a research assistant to Friedrich Paneth, Imperial College, London. Thereafter, he held the following positions:

⁕Research associate, University of Durham, 1939–47

⁕Mackinnon Research Student of the Royal Society, 1942–44

⁕Group-leader and later Branch-head in Chemistry Division, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, 1947–71

⁕Consultant to AERE, 1971–81

In addition to over 100 scholarly articles, he published Atomic Energy Waste in 1961; it became a standard reference. He contributed in the fields of micro-gas analysis of atmospheric gases, theory of ion exchange and chromatography, radio chemistry, electrolyte solution chemistry. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1969.