Early Life
Born in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia, in 1927. Since his father was of Jewish heritage, Fleischmann's family moved to the Netherlands and then to England in 1938, to avoid Nazi persecution. He received a PhD from Imperial College London in 1950.
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