Otto Hahn

Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn
Born	March 8, 1879; Frankfurt am Main, German Empire
Died	July 28, 1968 (aged 89); Göttingen, Germany
Occupation	Chemist
Known for	Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944

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.

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William Ramsay, London 1905
Ernest Rutherford at McGill University, Montreal 1905
Hahn and Meitner, 1913, in the chemical laboratory of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry. When a colleague she did not recognise said that they had met before, Meitner replied: "You probably mistake me for Professor Hahn."^[1]
Physicists and chemists in Berlin in 1920. Front row, left to right: Hertha Sponer, Albert Einstein, Ingrid Franck, James Franck, Lise Meitner, Fritz Haber, and Otto Hahn. Back row, left to right: Walter Grotrian, Wilhelm Westphal,*Otto von Baeyer [de], Peter Pringsheim [de] and Gustav Hertz
Former Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry building in Berlin. Heavily damaged by bombing during the Second World War, it was restored and became part of the Free University of Berlin. It was renamed the Otto Hahn Building in 1956, and the Hahn-Meitner Building in 2010.^[2]
Marble plaque in Latin by Professor Massimo Ragnolini, commemorating the honeymoon of Otto Hahn and his wife Edith at Punta San Vigilio, Lake Garda, Italy, in March and April 1913
The decay chain of actinium. Alpha decay shifts two elements down; beta decay shifts one element up.
Decay chain of uranium-238
Otto Hahn's marble bust at the Deutsches Museum in Munich

Otto Hahn

Born	(1879-03-08)March 8, 1879 Frankfurt am Main, German Empire
Died	July 28, 1968(1968-07-28) (aged 89) Göttingen, Germany
Occupation	Chemist
Known for	Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944