for transport to a concentration camp. Erika, frantic, used her Catholic connections and found someone who had been a friend of the family and was in the SS himself. He, at great peril to his own well being, managed to sneak Hartmut off the cattle car and to safety. His children were not considered Jewish by the Nazi authorities and were not hunted. In 1948 he emigrated to the US and established a research lab at New York University. He died in Munich at the age of 82. Patents and publications Patent for Scintillator Solution Enhancers The Basic Process Occurring in Liquid Scintillation, as presented by Kallmann and Furst in 1957. References Bibliography Benjamin Bederson, "Fritz Reiche and the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars", Physics in perspective 7 p.453-472, 2005 1896 births 1978 deaths 20th-century German physicists