Fritz Houtermans

Friedrich Georg Houtermans (January 22, 1903 - March 1, 1966) was a physicist born in Zoppod (today Sopot, Poland) near Danzig (today Gdansk, Poland).

Houtermans made important contributions to geochemistry and cosmochemistry.

External references

• Houtermans, F. (1953) "Determination of the Age of the Earth from the Isotopic Composition of Meteoritic Lead." Nuovo Cimento 10, 1623-1633,
• Patterson C. (1956) "Age of meteorites and the Earth" Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 10, 230-237
• Marvin U.B. (2002) "Oral histories in meteoritics and planetary sciences: VIII Friedrich Begemann", Meteoritics & Planteary Sciences 37 B69-B77.