About J. Hans D. Jensen
Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen was a German theoretical physicist. During World War II, he worked on the German nuclear energy project, known as the Uranium Club, where he contributed to the separation of uranium isotopes. After the war, Jensen was a professor at the University of Heidelberg. He was a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the Institute for Advanced Study, University of California, Berkeley, Indiana University, and the California Institute of Technology. Jensen was awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Eugene Wigner and Maria Goeppert Mayer, sharing one half of the Prize with the latter "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure". In 1932, Jensen became Scientific Assistant in the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Hamburg, and completed his habilitation there in 1936. In 1941, Jensen became Professor of Theoretical Physics at Technische Hochschule Hannover (now Universität Hannover). In 1963, Jensen shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert Mayer for their model of nuclear shells; the other half of the Prize was awarded to Eugene Wigner for unrelated work in nuclear and particle physics.
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