Otto Hahn

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German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968)

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And in an interview with the West German television (ARD, March 8, 1959) Meitner said: Lise Meitner: Recollections of Otto Hahn. Source: Internet

And it is why Otto Hahn, with atomic weapons in mind, wrote shortly before his death of the necessity of world peace." Source: Internet

An island in the Antarctic (near Mt. Discovery) was also named after him, as were two Intercity trains Otto Hahn of the German Federal Railways in 1971, running between Hamburg and Basel SBB, and the Otto Hahn Library in Göttingen. Source: Internet

Applied radiochemistry In the early 1920s, Otto Hahn created a new field of work. Source: Internet

Before she left, Otto Hahn had given her a diamond ring he had inherited from his mother: this was to be used to bribe the frontier guards if required. Source: Internet

Experiments by Otto Hahn in 1911 and by James Chadwick in 1914 discovered that the beta decay spectrum was continuous rather than discrete. Source: Internet

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