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When Fritz decided, in 1944, to marry Ilse Bartz, he did not inform his first wife Charlotte of his desire of divorcing her, but took advantage of a law which exempted from such a “formality” any person living separated from his wife or husband for more than 5 years. The law, promulgated by Hitler’s Government, had been used to terminate many marriages of “pure Aryans” to Jewish people.
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H.B.G. Casimir, born in The Hague in 1909, has been for many years extraordinary professor at the University of Leiden and Director of the Physics Laboratory of Philips at Eindhoven and later President of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Amsterdam. He worked in close contact, especially during his formation period, with Niels Bohr in Copenhagen, and W. Pauli in Zurich. He has worked as a theoretical physicist on the applications of the group theory to quantum mechanics [Casimir operator] on the thermodynamics of superconductors and on the Van der Waals forces [Casimir effect]. In his memory’s book “Halphazard Reality, Half a Century of Science” (Harper and Row Publ., New York, 1983) he mentions Houtermans, his life’s adventures and jokes at various points (pp.133 and 220 to 223). He died in Heeze on 4th May 2000.
Three international expeditions, promoted by C.F. Powell of the University of Bristol and based on the support of the Milan, Padua and Rome Universities, were made in the Mediterranean area in the years 1952, 1953 and 1954. The Physical Laboratories of the following Universities took part in the second one (June-July 1953): Berne, Bristol, Brussels, (Université Libre), Catania, Copenhagen, Dublin, Genoa, Göttingen (Max Planck Institute), London (Imperial College), Lund, Milan, Oslo, Padua, Paris (Ecole Politechnique), Rome, Sydney, Turin, Trondheim, Uppsala.
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Amaldi, E. (2013). Houtermans’ Third Family. In: Braccini, S., Ereditato, A., Scampoli, P. (eds) The Adventurous Life of Friedrich Georg Houtermans, Physicist (1903-1966). SpringerBriefs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32855-8_19
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