Short biography

1888	Born on 17 February 1888 in Sohrau
1912	PhD with Otto Sackur in Breslau
1912	Work with Albert Einstein at the Charles University in Prague
1913	Work with Albert Einstein at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
1913	Habilitation in Zürich
1914-1922	Lecturer at the University of Frankfurt, with interruptions (war, Berlin, Rostock)
1914-1918	Military service
1915	Re-habilitation to Frankfurt
1918-1919	Work at the Berlin University
1921-1922	Associate professor for experimental physics at the University of Rostock
1923-1933	Professor in Hamburg, Director of the Institute for Physical Chemistry at the University of Hamburg dismissed on 30.9.1933 at his own request in order to avoid dismissal as "non-Aryan"
1930-1931	Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Hamburg
1933	Emigration to the USA
1933-1946	Research professor of physics at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh
1943	Nobel Prize for physics
1944-1945	Participation in the Manhatten Project (exact scope and time frame are still unknown)
1945	Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
1960	Honorary doctorate from ETH Zurich
1969	died on 17 August 1969 in Berkeley

Furhter Information

• Otto Stern 1888-1969, von Immanuel Estermann
• Otto Stern 1888-1969, A Biographical Memoir by Emilo Segrè
•  Entry in the Hamburg catalogue of professors
  
•  Lecture by Horst Schmidt-Böcking: Otto Stern - pioneer of quantum physics 

Publications

(Nur die Publikationen aus der Hamburger Zeit bis 1933 werden im Gesamtindex der Chemie berücksichtigt.)