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Hans-Joachim Born

-Hans-Joachim Born was a German radiochemist trained and educated at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut fur Chemie.

Up to the end of World War II, he worked in Nikolaj Vladimirovich Timofeev-Resovski Abteilung fur Experimentelle Genetik, at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut fur Hirnforschung. He was taken prisoner by the Russians at the close of World War II.

After rescue from the Krasnoyarsk PoW camp, he initially worked in Nikolaus Riehl group at Plant No. 12 in Ehlektrostal, Russia, but at the end of 1947 was sent to work in Sungul at a sharshka known under the cover name Obekt 0211. At the Sungul facility, he again worked in a biological research department under the direction of Timofeev-Resovskij.

Upon arrival in the DDR in the mid-1950s, Born became the director of the Instituts fur Angewandte Isotopenforschung in Berlin-Buch. He also completed his Habilitation at the Technische Hochschule Dresden, where he then also became a professor on the Fakultat fur Kerntechnik. In 1957, he received and accepted a call to become a professor of radiochemistry at the Technische Hochschule Munchen in West Germany.