Sir Francis Simon FRS

Sir Farancis Simon FRS

Born 2 July 1893 Berlin as Franz Eugen

Died 31 October 1956 Oxford

Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board

Location: 10 Belbroughton Road, Oxford where he lived 1933 to 1956

Unveiled:  10 December 2003 by Sir Martin Wood of Oxford Instruments

Low temperature Physicist and Philanthropist

He was born into a wealthy jewish family in Berlin and educated at Berlin University. When Hilter came to power he accepted Lindemann's invitation to join the academic community in Oxford. In 1941 he became an FRS; his expertise in thermodynamis and isotope separation was invaluable during the reseach into an atomic bomb. He was kighted in 1955 and suceeded Lindeman as head of the Clarendon Laboratory in 1956 shortly before he died.