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Several groups therefore set to work:
1. a group developing a draft design of the source
2. groups to identify the needs of the physicists and other
scientists
3. a group developing the legal framework and the contract
defining the articles of incorporation of the new institute
There was inevitably overlap between these activities and some coordination between groups was necessary. Firstly the two countries had to designate those who would be in overall charge of setting up the new groups.
I think everything was launched at a meeting held on
February 22nd or 23rd, 1965, in Grenoble. On the German side, accompanying Maier-Leibnitz, were Heinz Beckurts from Karlsruhe, Tasso Springer and Peter Armbruster from Jülich, and Fiebiger from Frankfurt. I was unable to find a document naming the participants on the French side. Besides Néel, and myself, there was, without any doubt Dautray, and most likely Ageron and Deniélou. During this meeting Dautray presented a draft
he had drawn up following a request from Horowitz (personal communication from Dautray). Maier-Leibnitz endorsed this draft and designated Beckurts63 as the German representative for the creation of the detailed reactor design.
63 Heinz Beckurts later worked for Siemens and was murdered in July 1986 by the Red Army Faction.
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