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Karl Wirtz
Karl Wirtz (PhD, University of Breslau, 1934) has been a professor of reactor engineering at the University of Karlsruhe since 1957. At the same time he was head of the Institute for Neutron Physics and Reactor Engineering at the Nuclear Research Center, Karlsruhe. During World War II he participated in the early nuclear energy research in Germany under Professor Heisenberg. He is now an emeritus but still active as the European associate editor for Nuclear Technology.