George Sachs (April 5, 1896 – October 30, 1960) was a
Russia
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German
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metallurgist
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Born in
Moscow
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, he taught at
Frankfurt University (1930-1935), and the
Case Institute of Technology (now
Case Western Reserve University
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CWRU''; him since 1942)
He was of Jewish birth, and left Germany with his family in 1937 to escape Nazi persecution, and settled in the
United States
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. He was the father of the astronomer
Rainer K. Sachs
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Works
* ''
Praktische Metallkunde'', 1933
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1896 births
1960 deaths
Scientists from Moscow
German metallurgists
20th-century German chemists
20th-century American chemists
Russian Jews
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
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