nuclear reactors but also nuclear weapons, which increased the risk of nuclear proliferation. When asked if he has any regrets, he responded, "With a kitchen knife you can peel a potato or kill your neighbor, it's up to governments to use the centrifuge for the benefit of mankind." Awards Wilhelm Exner Medal (1990). Other In Hebrew, the name "Gernot Zippe" (גרנוט ציפה) is an anagram of the word "Centrifuge" (צנטריפוגה). References External links The Zippe Type – The Poor Man's Bomb, BBC Radio 4, 19 May 2004 Tracking the technology, Nuclear Engineering International, 31 August 2004 Slender and Elegant, It Fuels the Bomb, New York Times, March 23, 2004 Gernot Zippe 2008 deaths 1917 births Austrian mechanical engineers Austrian nuclear physicists Austrian people of World War II World War II prisoners of war held by the Soviet Union German Bohemian people Austrian people of German Bohemian descent Austrian expatriates in Switzerland People from Varnsdorf Nuclear program of Nazi Germany Nuclear weapons program of the Soviet Union 20th-century Austrian engineers