"German Physicist" Heinz Haber Hand Signed Typed Note for Sale

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Heinz Haber (May

15, 1913 – February 13, 1990) was a German physicist and science writer who

primarily became famous for his TV programs and books about physics and environmental subjects.

His lucid style of explaining hard science has frequently been imitated by

later popular science presenters in Germany. After studying physics obtaining his doctorate, Haber served in World War II for the German Luftwaffe as a reconnaissance aviator until 1942. He

returned to the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physik,

where he headed a small Potsdam-based division constructing a diffraction

spectrograph. After

the end of the war Heinz Haber — as well as several other Germans involved

in military research like Wernher von Braun — was targeted by the Operation Paperclip with

the aim of denying scientific expertise and knowledge to the Soviet Union and bringing researchers and scientists to

the United States; Ultimately this operation resulted in a considerable

contribution to the development of NASA. Haber at first stayed in the American occupied zone of Germany and

lectured at Heidelberg. However, in 1946, he emigrated

to the United States and joined the USAF School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Air Force Base.

Together with fellow German Hubertus Strughold, he and

his brother Dr. Fritz Haber (April 3, 1912 – August 21, 1998) made

pioneering research into space medicine in the late 1940s.[4][5][6] The brothers proposed parabolic In

1952, he became associate physicist at the University of California, Los

Angeles; in the 1950s, Haber eventually became the chief scientific consultant

to Walt Disney productions.

He later co-hosted Disney’s Man in Space with von Braun. Disney to produce a show championing the civilian use of nuclear power,

Heinz Haber was given the assignment. He hosted the Disney broadcast

called Our Friend the Atom and

wrote a popular children’s book with the same title, both of which explained

nuclear fission and fusion in simple terms. General Dynamics, a manufacturer of nuclear reactors,

sponsored Our Friend the Atom and the nuclear submarine ride

at Disneyland’s Tomorrowland. In

the 1960s and 1970s, he was well known in Germany as a popular science spokesperson and wrote magazine columns

and numerous books and presented his own TV programs like Professor

Haber experimentiert, Das Mathematische Kabinett, Unser

blauer Planet, Stirbt unser blauer Planet?, Professor

Haber berichtet, and WAS IST WAS mit Professor Haber. He was

founding editor of the German science magazine Bild der Wissenschaft from

1964 to 1990. His memorable experiments included one where the onset of a nuclear chain reaction was

simulated with hundreds of mousetraps, each one having been loaded with two ping pong balls. Heinz

Haber had an unparalleled capability for presenting hard scientific facts in a

manner and language which was understandable and entertaining for the layman

without being sloppy. This won him many accolades, such as the Adolf-Grimme-Preis and the Goldene Kamera. Heinz Haber had two children, Kai (born 1943)

and Cathleen (born 1945), from his first marriage, and a third child, Marc

(born 1969), from the second. His first wife Anneliese lives in Tucson,

Arizona, his second wife Irmgard in Hamburg, Germany.