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Hans SuessHans Eduard Suess (December 16, 1909 in Vienna - September 20, 1993 [1]) was an Austrian physical chemist and nuclear physicist. Additional recommended knowledgeSuess earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Vienna in 1935. During World War II, he was part of a team of German scientists studying atomic energy and was advisor to the production of heavy water in a Norwegian plant (see Operation Gunnerside). After the war, he collaborated on the shell model of the atomic nucleus with future Nobel Prize in Physics (1963) Hans Jensen. In 1950 Suess emigrated to the United States. He did research in the field of cosmochemistry, investigating the abundance of certain elements in meteorites with Harold Urey (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1934) at the University of Chicago. Suess' most recent research was focused on the distribution of carbon-14 and tritium in the oceans and atmosphere. On basis of radiocarbon analyses of annual growth-rings of trees he contributed to
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