Walter Seelmann-Eggebert

Walter Seelmann-Eggebert (April 1915 – July 1988) was a German radiochemist.

He was a student of Otto Hahn at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute where he worked with Lise Meitner or Fritz Strassmann on nuclear fission.

In 1949, he joined the University of Tucuman in Argentina as a professor of chemistry. Later he created the radiochemistry group at the Buenos Aires University. During his Argentinian years his group discovered 20 new nuclides.

In 1955, Otto Hahn invited him to come back to Germany for the reconstruction of Radiochemistry studies in the country. He became professor in Mainz before creating and managing the Radiochemistry Institute from the Karlsruhe Kernforschungszentrum now the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). In 1958, together with Gerda Pfennig, he edited the first "Karlsruher Nuklidkarte" which has become a basic element both for nuclear scientists and education.

External links

• Karlsruhe Nuclide Chart
• KIT