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Kazimierz Fajans (Kasimir Fajans in many American publications; 1887–1975) was an American physical chemist of Polish origin and a pioneer in the science of radioactivity.

Born in Warsaw, Poland, on 27 May. He was the second child and the elder son of five children born to Herman and Wanda (Wolberg) Fajans.

Born in Warsaw, Poland, on 27 May. He was the second child and the elder son of five children born to Herman and Wanda (Wolberg) Fajans.

Biographical / Historical: Born in Warsaw, Poland, in , Fajans was educated in Germany and received a Ph. D from the University of Heidelberg in

Kasimir Fajans was a Polish-American physical chemist who discovered the radioactive displacement law simultaneously with Frederick Soddy of.

Jewish Scientist, Kasimir Fajans was on the run from Nazis and U-M Dean, Edward Kraus found him a home.

Kasimir Fajans (), a Polish chemist and professor at the University of Munich, describes an assistantship position in his laboratory.

Education and career

He was born May 27, 1887, in Warsaw, Poland, to a family of Jewish background. After he had completed a secondary school in Warsaw (1904), he started studying chemistry in Germany: at first at the University in Leipzig, and then in Heidelberg and Zurich.

In 1909 he was awarded a PhD degree for his research into the stereoselective synthesis of chiral compounds. In 1910 he undertook a job at the laboratory of Ernest Rutherford in Manchester, where the nucleus was discovered.

Kasimir Fajans (), a Polish American chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Michigan, informs his friend and former mentee, Max.

Next Fajans returned to Germany where he took the position of an assistant and later became the assistant professor at the Technical University of Karlsruhe. He researched into radioactivity. In 1917 he took over the Faculty of Physical Chemistry at Munich University, and in 1932 becam