Otto Hahn

Sources

1. BookDiscovery of the Elements
2. BookNature's Building Blocks: An A–Z Guide to the Elements

collaborated with:

• Fritz Strassmann

  Sources: Über den Nachweis und das Verhalten der bei der Bestrahlung des Urans mittels Neutronen entstehenden Erdalkalimetalle

• Lise Meitner

  Sources: Discovery of the Elements, Nature's Building Blocks: An A–Z Guide to the Elements

discovered:

• Nuclear fission

  Sources: Disintegration of Uranium by Neutrons: a New Type of Nuclear Reaction

Appears in6 items

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  From X-rays to the Bomb5 items
  • The First World War · gas researcher28 Jul 1914
  • Meitner escapes Berlin · helper13 Jul 1938
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    The discovery of fission · discoverer17 Dec 1938
  • Hahn writes to Meitner: it is barium · author19 Dec 1938
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    Farm Hall hears the news · detainee6 Aug 1945
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  The Periodic Table1 item
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    Hahn and Meitner's protactinium · discoverer1918

Mentioned in1 item

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  From X-rays to the Bomb1 item
  • Meitner and Frisch explain fission in Nature11 Feb 1939