Otto Hahn

Otto Hahn (8 March 1879 – 28 July 1968) was a German Nobel Prize winning chemist. He did pioneering research into the atom and he discovered nuclear fission (splitting the uranium atom) in 1938, together with Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassmann.

Otto Hahn
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Born(1879-03-08)March 8, 1879
DiedJuly 28, 1968(1968-07-28) (aged 89)
OccupationChemist
Known forNobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944

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  1. Hahn 1966, p. 66.
  2. Sime 1996, p. 368.