{"id":1402,"date":"2025-11-25T16:47:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.victorfhess.org\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2025-11-25T16:58:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:58:39","slug":"08-02-1923","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.victorfhess.org\/en\/08-02-1923\/","title":{"rendered":"08.02.1923"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-background has-medium-font-size\" style=\"background-color:#a7c9bf3d\">back to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.victorfhess.org\/forschung\/transkriptionen\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"25\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-neve-link-hover-color-color\">Jahresauswahl<\/mark><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-border-color has-neve-link-hover-color-border-color\" style=\"border-width:1px\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Title<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Letter from Victor Franz Hess to Stefan Meyer<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Original<\/strong><\/td><td>\u00a9 Fordham University, New York City, NY USA<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Editing<\/strong><\/td><td>\u00a9Victor-Franz-Hess-Gesellschaft P\u00f6llau<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Content<\/strong><\/td><td>Hess reports that his friends Rentschler and Marden have developed a new method for achieving very high temperatures and have used it to produce pure thorium and uranium. They found that uranium consists of two components with different melting points.<br>He asks Meyer to send him various ore samples, possibly also ordering them from the Krantz company in Bonn, in to carry out further tests.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/td><td>&#8211; Company Krantz in Bonn: mineral trade, founded by Adam August Krantz; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adam_August_Krantz\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adam_August_Krantz<\/a> (retrieved 13.10.2025)<br>&#8211; Katanga Erz: mineral from the province Katanga in Belgian Congo; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Katanga_Province\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Katanga_Province<\/a> (retrieved 13.10.2025)<br>&#8211; Westinghouse Company: The Westinghouse Electric &amp; Manufacturing Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a former American manufacturer of electrical components, generators and electric vehicles. <a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Westinghouse_Electric_%26_Manufacturing\">https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Westinghouse_Electric_%26_Manufacturing<\/a> (retrieved 13.10.2025)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.victorfhess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1923-02-08-Brief-VFH-an-Meyer-Orig-1.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:750px\" aria-label=\"Embed of 1923-02-08 Brief VFH an Meyer - Orig.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-6de9da51-04b6-4db5-b0cf-4f68a3430cb2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.victorfhess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1923-02-08-Brief-VFH-an-Meyer-Orig-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1923-02-08 Brief VFH an Meyer &#8211; Orig<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.victorfhess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1923-02-08-Brief-VFH-an-Meyer-Orig-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-6de9da51-04b6-4db5-b0cf-4f68a3430cb2\">Herunterladen<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>zur\u00fcck zur Jahresauswahl Title Letter from Victor Franz Hess to Stefan Meyer Original \u00a9 Fordham University, New York City, NY USA Editing \u00a9Victor-Franz-Hess-Gesellschaft P\u00f6llau Content Hess reports that his friends Rentschler and Marden have developed a new method for achieving very high temperatures and have used it to produce pure thorium and uranium. 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