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Teachers and researchers at this institute have been Max Le Blanc (1900-1905), Fritz Haber (1905-1911), Georg Bredig (1912-1934), Kasimir Fajans.

Warsaw, Russian Poland, 27 May ; d. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 18 May )

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The son of Herman Fajans, a merchant, and Wanda Wolberg, Kasimir Fajans graduated from high school in Warsaw (), and then left Russian Poland to study at the universities of Leipzig (bachelor’s degree, ) and Heidelberg (doctorate, ).

Then came a year of research at Zurich, followed by a second research year (–) in Ernest Rutherford’s laboratory at the University of Manchester. In Fajans married Salomea Kaplan, a physician. They had two sons, Edgar and Stefan.

Rutherford and his laboratory attracted some of the best researchers in radioactivity.

Since the subject straddled the line between physics and chemistry, generally at least one radiochemist was to be found there.

Citing his "forceful methods for trying to wrest truth from nature," Einstein calls.

Fajans’ interest in radioactivity had been ignited in by Philipp Lenard. Who suggested that he report on the subject for his physics colloquium. This was far afield from the physical-organic topic in stereochemi