Walter
Gerlach was born in Munich, Germany, in
1889. A brilliant scientist, Gerlach was one of the world's leading
figures in the field of physics by the outbreak of the Second
World War.
Gerlach
was the chief coordinator of nuclear research at the Kaiser Wilhelm
Institute of Chemistry. However, working with Werner
Heisenberg, Carl
von Weizsacker
and Karl Wirtz Gerlach and his team
were unable to develop an atom bomb.
In
April, 1945, Allied forces arrested German scientists such as Gerlach,
Otto Hahn, Werner
Heisenberg, Carl von Weizsacker,
Max von Laue and Karl
Wirtz. These men were now taken to England where they were questioned
to see if they had discovered how to make atomic weapons.
Walter
Gerlach died in 1979.
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