Heinz Otto Schild

Schild was born into a Jewish family in what was Fiume, Austria-Hungary, and is now Rijeka, Croatia.

During the rise of fascism he was schooled in Munich (from 1915) then Budapest (from 1917).

In 1937 he married Mireille Madeline Haquin.

As an enemy alien (in his case, an Italian citizen) in the UK before the Second World War, he was interned during 1939-1940 on the Isle of Man.

[2] However, his release from the camp was eventually secured by appeals from the scientific community; he stayed in Britain and gained British citizenship in 1948.