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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Karl Weierstrass, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Abraham Esau, Fritz Houtermans, Ernst Stuhlinger, Max Volmer, Kees Christiaanse, Hans Kopfermann, Hans Scharoun, Dennis Gabor, Otto Haxel, Walter Burkert, Karl Heinrich Emil Becker, Rudolf Mentzel, Wolfgang Benz, Adolf Slaby, Fritz Sauter, Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, Ivan Stranski, Wilhelm Westphal, Reinhard Selten, Rudolf Mossbauer, Heinrich Tessenow, Ernst Kummer, Thomas Wiegand, Ernst Herzfeld, Wolfgang Paul, Hans Kollhoff, Gerhart Jander, Robert Durrer, Ernst Steinitz, Gunter M. Ziegler, Martina Low, Hans-Jurgen Krupp, Anja Feldmann, Heinrich Martin Weber, Richard Wolffenstein, Fritz Ullmann, Ingo Rechenberg, Paul du Bois-Reymond, Gerd Juttemann, Paul Schmitthenner, Adolf Ferdinand Wenceslaus Brix, Georg Hamel, Christian Pommerenke, Norbert Bolz, Sabine Hark, Horst H. Berger. Excerpt: Robert Abraham Esau (June 7, 1884 - May 12, 1955) was a German physicist. After receipt of his doctorate from the University of Berlin, Esau worked at Telefunken, where he pioneered very high frequency (VHF) waves used in radar, radio, and television, and he was president of the Deutscher Telefunken Verband. During World War I, he was a prisoner of war of the French; he was repatriated to Germany in 1918. In 1925, he was appointed professor at the University of Jena, where he also served as rector. From 1933, Esau was the State Councilor in Thuringia. From 1937, Esau was head of the physics section of the newly created Reich Research Council (RFR). From 1939, he was a professor at the University of Berlin and president of the Reich Physical and Technical Institute. From his position in the RFR, he initiated the first meeting of the Uranium Club in early 1939, the precursor to the Army Ordnance Office (HWA) German nuclear energy project, which began in September of that year. When the HWA gave contr...
