Editing Gernot Zippe (section)

===In Germany===

In 1956, Zippe was notified by the [[Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Soviet administration]] in [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukraine]] of his release, and he decided to settle in [[West Germany|Germany]] as opposed to [[Austria]].{{rp|64}} In 1957, Zippe attended the conference on centrifuge research in [[Amsterdam]], he realized the rest of the world was far behind what his team had been able to achieve.{{rp|64}} During this time, Zippe was able to found an employment with [[AMOLF]] as a [[Engineering consulting|consultant]] on centrifuge technology.{{rp|65}} In 1965, Zippe left AMOLF to join the [[Evonik Industries|Duggas AG]] (now [[Trade name]]: Evonik Industries) as a consultant until 1969 when he decided to join the consultant staff of the [[Urenco Group]] until his retirement in 1990.{{rp|65}}

It was the Dutch physicist {{ill|Jacob Kistemaker|nl|Jacob_Kistemaker|vertical-align=sup}} who filed and applied for the first patent in the European and U.S. patents authorities as a functional gas-ultracentrifuge developed at AMOLF, which he credited after Zippe: [[Zippe-type centrifuge|Zippe-type]].<ref name="Unintended Consequences" />