Fritz Houtermans, Polish-German physicist and academic (died 1966)

Fritz Houtermans

Prussian-born physicist and communist (1903–1966)

Friedrich Georg "Fritz" Houtermans was a Dutch-Austrian-German atomic and nuclear physicist and Communist born in Zoppot near Danzig, West Prussia to a Dutch father, who was a wealthy banker. He was brought up in Vienna, where he was educated, and moved to Göttingen when he was…