Background
Weiss was born in 1905 in Austria.
Weiss was born in 1905 in Austria.
He was a pioneer in the field of radiation and photochemistry
He had obtained a Diplomatic.Ing. degree in the Technische Hochschule in Vienna. He entered the Textile Institute at Sorau in 1928 and was the head of the chemistry department there. He left his post two years later to become an assistant to the German chemist Fritz Haber at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Elektrochemistry in Berlin.
Together they discovered the Haber–Weiss reaction.
He fled with Haber (who was born Jewish) from Nazi Germany to Cambridge in 1933. He later moved to University College London, where he got his Doctor of Philosophy in 1935 from Professor Frederick George Donnan. in 1937 he started teaching at the King"s College in Durham, which later became the Newcastle University.
In 1956 he was appointed a professor of Radiation Chemistry at the Newcastle University
In 1968 he received an honorary degree from the Technical University of Berlin. In 1972 the Association for Radiation Research established the Weiss Medal, named after him.