Biography:Reinhold Strassmann

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Reinhold Strassmann
Born1893
Died
Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Marburg
Known forStrassmann's theorem
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Doctoral advisorKurt Hensel

Reinhold Strassmann (or Straßmann) (24 January 1893 in Berlin – late October 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp) was a German mathematician who proved Strassmann's theorem. His Ph.D. advisor at University of Marburg was Kurt Hensel.

Born into a Jewish family,[1] Strassmann refused to leave Nazi Germany, and he was eventually detained and deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943. On October 23, 1944, he was deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was murdered soon after.[2]

He was the son of the forensic pathologist Fritz Strassmann.

Selected publications

References

  1. Burkhard Madea, History of Forensic Medicine, Lehmanns Media (2017), p. 148
  2. Reinhold Strassmann's record in the Victims Database at holocaust.cz