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Manfred von Ardenne (20 January 1907 – 26 May 1997) was a
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. He took out approximately 600
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s in fields including
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,
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, and radio and television technology. From 1928 to 1945, he directed his private research laboratory ''Forschungslaboratorium für Elektronenphysik''. For ten years after
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, he worked in the
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on their atomic bomb project and was awarded a
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. Upon his return to the then East Germany, he started another private laboratory, ''Forschungsinstitut Manfred von Ardenne''.


Career


Early years

The stormy life of von Ardenne's grandmother, Elisabeth von Ardenne (1853–1952), is said to have been be the inspiration for ''
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'' by
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, one of the most famous
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s. Born in 1907 in
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to a wealthy aristocratic family, Ardenne was the oldest of five children. In 1913, Ardenne's father, assigned to the ''Kriegsministerium'', moved to Berlin. From Ardenne's earliest youth, he was intrigued by any form of technology, and this was fostered by his parents. Ardenne's early education was at home through private teachers. In Berlin, from 1919, Ardenne attended the ''Realgymnasium'', where he pursued his interests in physics and technology. In a school competition, he submitted models of a camera and an alarm system, for which he was awarded first place.Ardenne
– Deutsches Historisches Museum.
In 1923, at the age of 15, he received his first patent for an electronic tube with multiple (three) systems in a single tube for applications in wireless telegraphy. At this time, Ardenne prematurely left the ''Gymnasium'' to pursue the development of radio engineering with the entrepreneur Siegmund Loewe, who became his mentor. Loewe built the inexpensive Loewe-Ortsempfänger OE333 with Ardenne's multiple system electronic tube. In 1925, from patent sales and publication income, Ardenne substantially improved the broadband amplifier (resistance-coupled amplifier), which was fundamental to the development of television and
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. Without an
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, because he did not graduate from the ''Gymnasium'', Ardenne entered university-level study of
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, and
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. After four semesters, he left his formal studies, due to the inflexibility of the university system, and educated himself; he became an
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and devoted himself to
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research. In 1928, he came into his inheritance with full control as to how it could be spent, and he established his private research laboratory ''Forschungslaboratorium für Elektronenphysik'', in Berlin-Lichterfelde, to conduct his own research on radio and television technology and
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. He invented the scanning electron microscope. He financed the laboratory with income he received from his inventions and from contracts with other concerns. For example, his research on
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and high-frequency technology was financed by the ''
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'' (RPM, Reich Postal Ministry), headed by
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. M von Ardenne attracted top-notch personnel to work in his facility, such as the nuclear physicist Fritz Houtermans, in 1940. Ardenne also conducted research on isotope separation. The small list of equipment Ardenne had in the laboratory is impressive for a private laboratory. For example, when on 10 May 1945 he was visited by
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Colonel General V. A. Makhnjov, accompanied by Soviet physicists
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, Lev Artsimovich,
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, and V. V. Migulin (of the Russian Alsos operation), they praised the research being conducted and the equipment, including an
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, a 60-ton
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, and plasma-ionic
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installation. At the Berlin Radio Show in August 1931, Ardenne gave the world's first public demonstration of a television system using a
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for both transmission and reception. (Ardenne never developed a camera tube, using the CRT instead as a flying-spot scanner to scan slides and film.) Ardenne achieved his first transmission of television pictures on 24 December 1933, followed by test runs for a public television service in 1934. The world's first electronically scanned television service then started in Berlin in 1935, culminating in the live broadcast of the 1936 Summer Olympic Games from Berlin to public places all over Germany. In 1937, Ardenne developed the scanning transmission electron microscope. During World War II, he took part in the study and application of
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. In 1941 the "" of the " Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften" was awarded to Ardenne, and in January 1945, he received the title of "
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" (Empire Research Advisor).


In the Soviet Union

Von Ardenne,
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, Nobel laureate and director of Research Laboratory II at
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,
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, ordinarius professor at the
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and director of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für physikalische Chemie und Elektrochemie (KWIPC) in
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, and
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, ordinarius professor and director of the Physical Chemistry Institute at the Berlin Technische Hochschule, had made a pact. The pact was a pledge that whoever first made contact with the Soviets would speak for the rest. The objectives of their pact were threefold: (1) Prevent plunder of their institutes, (2) Continue their work with minimal interruption, and (3) Protect themselves from prosecution for any political acts of the past. Before the end of World War II, Thiessen, a member of the
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, had Communist contacts. On 27 April 1945, Thiessen arrived at von Ardenne's institute in an armored vehicle with a major of the Soviet Army, who was also a leading Soviet chemist, and they issued Ardenne a protective letter (''Schutzbrief''). All four of the pact members were taken to the Soviet Union. Von Ardenne was made head of Institute A, in Sinop,Oleynikov, 2000, 11-12.Naimark, 1995, 213. a suburb of
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. In his first meeting with Lavrentij Beria, von Ardenne was asked to participate in the
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, but von Ardenne quickly realized that participation would prohibit his repatriation to Germany, so he suggested isotope enrichment as an objective, which was agreed to. Goals of Ardenne's Institute A included: (1) Electromagnetic separation of isotopes, for which von Ardenne was the leader, (2) Techniques for manufacturing porous barriers for isotope separation, for which Peter Adolf Thiessen was the leader, and (3) Molecular techniques for separation of uranium isotopes, for which
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was the leader; Steenbeck was a colleague of Hertz at Siemens. Others at Institute A included Ingrid Schilling, Alfred Schimohr, Gerhard Siewert, and Ludwig Ziehl. By the end of the 1940s, nearly 300 Germans were working at the institute, and they were not the total work force. Hertz was made head of Institute G, in Agudseri (Agudzery), about 10 km southeast of
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and a suburb of Gul’rips (Gulrip'shi); after 1950, Hertz moved to Moscow. Volmer went to the Nauchno-Issledovatel'skij Institut-9 (NII-9, Scientific Research Institute No. 9), in Moscow; he was given a design bureau to work on the production of heavy water. In Institute A, Thiessen became leader for developing techniques for manufacturing porous barriers for isotope separation. At the suggestion of authorities, Ardenne eventually shifted his research from isotope separation to plasma research directed towards controlled
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. In 1947, Ardenne was awarded a
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for his development of a table-top electron microscope. In 1953, before his return to Germany, he was awarded a Stalin Prize, first class, for contributions to the atomic bomb project; the money from this prize, 100,000
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, was used to buy the land for his private institute in
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. According to an agreement that Ardenne made with authorities in the Soviet Union soon after his arrival, the equipment which he brought to the Soviet Union from his laboratory in Berlin-Lichterfelde was not to be considered as "reparations" to the Soviet Union. Ardenne took the equipment with him in December 1954 when he returned to the then East Germany.


Return to (East) Germany

After Ardenne's arrival in the
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(DDR), he became "Professor für elektrotechnische Sonderprobleme der Kerntechnik" (Professor of electrotechnical special problems of Nuclear Technology) at the
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. He also founded his research institute, "Forschungsinstitut Manfred von Ardenne", in Dresden, which with over 500 employees became a unique institution in East Germany as a leading research institute that was privately run. However it collapsed with substantial debts after
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in 1991 and re-emerged a
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Ardenne twice won the GDR's National Prize. In 1957, Ardenne became a member of the "Forschungsrat" of the DDR. In that year, he developed an endoradiosonde for medical diagnostics. In 1958, he was awarded the "Nationalpreis" of the DDR; the same year he became a member of the "Friedensrat". In 1959, he received a patent for the electron-beam furnace he developed. In 1961, he was selected a chairman of the "Internationale Gesellschaft für medizinische Elektronik und biomedizinische Technik". From the 1960s, he expanded his medical research and became well known for his oxygen multi-step therapy and cancer multi-step therapy. In 1963, Ardenne became president of the "Kulturbund" of the DDR. During the period 1963 to 1989, he was a delegate to the "
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" of the DDR, as well as a member of the "Kulturbund-Fraktion". After the creation of the Dresden-Hamburg city partnership (1987), Ardenne became an
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of Dresden in September 1989. At the time of his death on 26 May 1997, Ardenne held around 600 patents. In 2002 the German "Europäische Forschungsgesellschaft Dünne Schichten" ("European Thin-Film Research Society") named an annual prize in von Ardenne's honor.


Personal

In 1937, Ardenne married Bettina Bergengruen; they had four children.


Honors

Von Ardenne received many honors: *3 July 1941 – Silver Leibniz Medal of the Prussian Academy of Sciences *2 January 1945 – Appointed to the ''
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'' *8 December 1947 – Stalin Prize of the USSR *31 December 1953 – Stalin Prize of the USSR *26 July 1955 – Member of the Physics Section of the German Academy of Sciences *10 November 1955 – Member of the ''Wissenschaftlichen Rates für friedliche Anwendung der Atomenergie'' (Scientific Council for Peaceful Applications of Atomic Energy) of the Council of Ministers of the GDR *1 June 1956 – Honorary ProfessorAn honorary professor has the authority to teach, but is not compelled to teach. at the
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*15 July 1957 – Member of the ''Forschungsrates'' (Research Council) of the GDR *7 December 1957 –
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Medal *18 April 1958 – Peace Medal of the GDR *25 September 1958 – Honorary Doctorate of Natural Sciences from the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald *7 October 1958 – National Prize, First Class *4 January 1959 – Grand Cross of Service Medal of the
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*27 May 1961 – President of the ''Gesellschaft für biomedizinische Technik'' (Society for Biomedical Technology) *2 November 1962 – member of the ''Wissenschaftlichen Rates des Ministerium für Gesundheitswesen'' (Scientific Council of the Ministry for Health Service) of the GDR *7 October 1965 – National Prize, Second Class *15 December 1965 – Member of the International Astronautical Academy of Paris *12 May 1970 – Lenin Medal *29 October 1973 – Hans Bredow Medal *12 December 1978 – Honorary Doctor of Medicine of the ''Akademie Dresden'' *20 June 1979 – Honorary Member of the ''Forschungsrates'' of the GDR *1 December 1981 – Barkhausen Medal of the
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*20 January 1982 – Gold Patriotic Service Medal *22 September 1982 – Honorary Doctor of Education of the ''Pädagogische Hochschule Dresden''*25 October 1983 – Honorary Member of the ''Gesellschaft für Ultraschalltechnik'' (Society for Ultrasonics) *19 February 1984 – Honorary Member of the ''Ärztegesellschaft für Sauerstoff-Mehrschritt-Therapie'' (Physicians Society for Oxygen Multi-step Therapy) *11 April 1986 – Wilhelm Ostwald Medal of the Saxony Academy of Sciences *2 June 1986 – Richard Theile Medal of the German Television Technology Society *9 July 1986 –
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Medal of the Chamber of Technology of the GDR *24 April 1987 – Medal of the Art and Science Senate of
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*15 May 1987 – Ernst Krokowski Prize of the Society for Biological Cancer Prevention *3 March 1988 –
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Medal of Urania *21 October 1988 – Gold Diesel Medal of
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*25 November 1988 –
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Prize of
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*26 September 1989 – Honorary Citizen of
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*15 July 1993 – '' Colani Design France'' Prize


Books

*Manfred von Ardenne ''Tabellen der Elektronenphysik, Ionenphysik und Übermikroskopie. Bd. 1. Hauptgebiete'' (VEB Dt. Verl. d. Wissenschaften, 1956) *Manfred von Ardenne ''Tabellen zur angewandten Kernphysik'' (Dt. Verl. d. Wissensch., 1956) *Manfred von Ardenne ''Eine glückliche Jugend im Zeichen der Technik'' (Kinderbuchverl., 1962) *Manfred von Ardenne ''Eine glückliche Jugend im Zeichen der Technik'' (Urania-Verl., 1965) *Manfred von Ardenne ''Ein glückliches Leben für Technik und Forschung'' (Suhrkamp Verlag KG, 1982) *Manfred von Ardenne ''Sauerstoff- Mehrschritt- Therapie. Physiologische und technische Grundlagen'' (Thieme, 1987) *Manfred von Ardenne ''Sechzig Jahre für Forschung und Fortschritt. Autobiographie'' (Verlag der Nation, 1987) *Manfred von Ardenne ''Mein Leben für Forschung und Fortschritt'' (Ullstein, 1987) *Siegfried Reball, Manfred von Ardenne, and Gerhard Musiol ''Effekte der Physik und ihre Anwendungen'' (Deutscher Verlag, 1989) *Manfred von Ardenne, Gerhard Musiol, and Siegfried Reball ''Effekte der Physik und ihre Anwendungen'' (Deutsch, 1990) *Manfred von Ardenne ''Die Erinnerungen'' (Herbig Verlag, 1990) *Manfred von Ardenne ''Fernsehempfang: Bau und Betrieb einer Anlage zur Aufnahme des Ultrakurzwellen-Fernsehrundfunks mit Braunscher Röhre'' (Weidmannsche, 1992) *Manfred von Ardenne ''Wegweisungen eines vom Optimismus geleiteten Lebens: Sammlung von Hinweisen, Lebenserfahrungen, Erkenntnissen, Aussprüchen und Aphorismen über sieben der Forschung gewidmeten Jahrzehnte'' (Verlag Kritische Wissensch., 1996) *Manfred von Ardenne ''Erinnerungen, fortgeschrieben'' (Droste, 1997) *Manfred von Ardenne, Alexander von Ardenne, and Christian Hecht ''Systemische Krebs-Mehrschritt-Therapie'' (Hippokrates, 1997) *Manfred von Ardenne ''Gesundheit durch Sauerstoff- Mehrschritt- Therapie'' (Nymphenburger, 1998) *Manfred von Ardenne ''Wo hilft Sauerstoff-Mehrschritt-Therapie?'' (Urban & Fischer Verlag, 1999) *Manfred von Ardenne ''Arbeiten zur Elektronik. 1930, 1931, 1937, 1961, 1968'' (Deutsch, 2001) *Manfred von Ardenne ''Die physikalischen Grundlagen der Rundfunkanlagen'' (Funk Verlag, 2002) *Manfred von Ardenne and Manfred Lotsch ''Ich bin ihnen begegnet'' (Droste, 2002) *Manfred von Ardenne ''Des Funkbastlers erprobte Schaltungen: Reprint der Originalausgabe von 1926'' (Funk Verlag, 2003) *Manfred von Ardenne, Gerhard Musiol, and Siegfried Reball ''Effekte der Physik und ihre Anwendungen'' (Deutsch, 2003) *Manfred von Ardenne ''Empfang auf kurzen Wellen - Möglichkeiten, Schaltungen und praktische Winke: Reprint der Originalausgabe von 1928'' (Funk Verlag, 2005) *Manfred von Ardenne, Gerhard Musiol, and Siegfried Reball ''Effekte der Physik und ihre Anwendungen'' (Deutsch, 2005) *Manfred von Ardenne and Kurt Borchardt (editors) ''Handbuch der Funktechnik und ihrer Grenzgebiete'' (Franckh)


See also

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Environmental scanning electron microscope The environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) is a scanning electron microscope (SEM) that allows for the option of collecting electron micrographs of specimens that are wet, uncoated, or both by allowing for a gaseous environment in ...
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Raster scan A raster scan, or raster scanning, is the rectangular pattern of image capture and reconstruction in television. By analogy, the term is used for raster graphics, the pattern of image storage and transmission used in most computer bitmap image ...
* Russian Alsos * German inventors and discoverers


References


Bibliography

*Albrecht, Ulrich, Andreas Heinemann-Grüder, and Arend Wellmann ''Die Spezialisten: Deutsche Naturwissenschaftler und Techniker in der Sowjetunion nach 1945'' (Dietz, 1992, 2001) *Barkleit, Gerhard ''Manfred von Ardenne. Selbstverwirklichung im Jahrhundert der Diktaturen'' (Duncker & Humblot, 2006) *Barwich, Heinz and Elfi Barwich ''Das rote Atom'' (Fischer-TB.-Vlg., 1984) *Beneke, Klaus ''Die Kolloidwissenschaftler Peter Adolf Thiessen, Gerhart Jander, Robert Havemann, Hans Witzmann und ihre Zeit'' (Knof, 2000) *Heinemann-Grüder, Andreas ''Die sowjetische Atombombe'' (Westfaelisches Dampfboot, 1992) *Heinemann-Grüder, Andreas ''Keinerlei Untergang: German Armaments Engineers during the Second World War and in the Service of the Victorious Powers'' in Monika Renneberg and Mark Walker (editors) ''Science, Technology and National Socialism'' 30-50 (Cambridge, 2002 paperback edition) *Hentschel, Klaus (editor) and Ann M. Hentschel (editorial assistant and translator) ''Physics and National Socialism: An Anthology of Primary Sources'' (Birkhäuser, 1996) *Herbst, Wilhelm ''Manfred von Ardenne - Eine Anthologie -: Auswahl-Dokumentation historischer Fachartikel 1925-1938'' (Funk Verlag, 2007) *Holloway, David ''Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy 1939–1956'' (Yale, 1994) *Kruglov, Arkadii ''The History of the Soviet Atomic Industry'' (Taylor and Francis, 2002) *Maddrell, Paul "Spying on Science: Western Intelligence in Divided Germany 1945–1961" (Oxford, 2006) *Naimark, Norman M. ''The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949'' (Hardcover — Aug 11, 1995) Belknap *Oleynikov, Pavel V. ''German Scientists in the Soviet Atomic Project'', ''The Nonproliferation Review'' Volume 7, Number 2, 1 – 30
(2000)
The author has been a group leader at the Institute of Technical Physics of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center in
Snezhinsk Snezhinsk ( rus, Сне́жинск, p=ˈsnʲeʐɨnsk) is a closed town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. Population: History The settlement began in 1955 as Residential settlement number 2, a name which it had until 1957 when it received town ...
(Chelyabinsk-70). *Riehl, Nikolaus and
Frederick Seitz Frederick Seitz (July 4, 1911 – March 2, 2008) was an American physicist and a pioneer of solid state physics and lobbyist. Seitz was the 4th president of Rockefeller University from 1968–1978, and the 17th president of the United States Nat ...
''Stalin's Captive: Nikolaus Riehl and the Soviet Race for the Bomb'' (American Chemical Society and the Chemical Heritage Foundations, 1996) . This book is a translation of Nikolaus Riehl's book ''Zehn Jahre im goldenen Käfig (Ten Years in a Golden Cage)'' (Riederer-Verlag, 1988); Seitz has written a lengthy introduction to the book. This book is a treasure trove with its 58 photographs. *Schaaf, Michael ''Wir haben die russische Atombombe beschleunigt (We accelerated the building of the Russian atomic bomb)'' Interview with Manfred von Ardenne, in: ''Heisenberg, Hitler und die Bombe - Gespräche mit Zeitzeugen'' (GNT Verlag, Berlin 2001)


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