Reinhold Strassmann (or Straßmann) (24 January 1893 in Berlin – late October 1944 in

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) was a German mathematician who proved Strassmann's theorem. His Ph.D. advisor at

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was

Kurt Hensel Kurt Wilhelm Sebastian Hensel (29 December 1861 – 1 June 1941) was a German mathematician born in Königsberg. Life and career Hensel was born in Königsberg, Province of Prussia (today Kaliningrad, Russia), the son of Julia (née von Adelson ...

. Born into a

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family, Strassmann refused to leave

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, and he was eventually detained and deported to

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in 1943. On October 23, 1944, he was deported from Theresienstadt to

, where he was murdered soon after.Reinhold Strassmann's record
in the Victims Database a
holocaust.cz
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Fritz Strassmann Friedrich Wilhelm Strassmann (; 22 February 1902 – 22 April 1980) was a German chemist who, with Otto Hahn in December 1938, identified the element barium as a product of the bombardment of uranium with neutrons. Their observation was the key ...

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