J. Hans D. Jensen

J. Hans D. Jensen
Jensen in 1963
Born	Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen (1907-06-25)25 June 1907 Hamburg, German Empire
Died	11 February 1973(1973-02-11) (aged 65) Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
Alma mater	University of Hamburg (PhD, 1932; Dr. habil., 1936)
Known for	Proposing the nuclear shell model (1949)
Political party	NSDAP (1937–1945)
Awards	Nobel Prize in Physics (1963)
Scientific career
Fields	Nuclear physics
Institutions	University of Hamburg (1937–1941) Technische Hochschule Hannover (1941–1949) University of Heidelberg (1949–1969)
Doctoral advisor	Wilhelm Lenz
Doctoral students	Hans-Arwed Weidenmüller (1958)

Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen (German: [ˈhans ˈjɛnzn̩] ^ⓘ; 25 June 1907 – 11 February 1973) was a German nuclear 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.^[1]

Jensen shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Eugene Wigner and Maria Goeppert Mayer, sharing one half of it with the latter for their model of the atomic nucleus.