Gerhart Friedlander

Who was Gerhart Friedlander?

Gerhart Friedlander was a nuclear chemist who worked on the Manhattan Project.

Friedlander was born in Munich, and fled Nazi Germany for the United States in 1936. After emigrating, he studied at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a PhD.

He spent the bulk of his career at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he served as head of the chemistry department. He conducted fundamental research into the mechanics of nuclear reactions, developing groundbreaking models that remained in use at the time of his death. He also co-authored a popular textbook on nuclear chemistry.