Otto hahn

Otto Hahn

Otto Hahn (1879 - 1968) was a German chemist and winner of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of nuclear fission.Hahn was a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry and is widely regarded as the "father of nuclear chemistry." Hahn's most spectacular discovery came at the…

Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner navigated a life of science through war and peace.

The German chemist discovered that the atom could be split, paving the way for a nuclear bomb and changing the course of ...

The World would have been much poorer without these famous German Scientists!

The story of two close friends who discovered nuclear fission is told in great detail within the context of both World Wars. This video is as much about role of…

Fritz Strassman, who worked with Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn on what would result in the discovery of nuclear fission.

Otto Hahn (1879-1968) was a German Chemist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944 – for his work in discovering Nuclear Fission. He was a distinguished Chemist who worked in the pioneering fields of radiochemistry. After the Second World War, he was a campaigner against the use of nuclear weapons and became […]

Dr Otto Hahn was a German chemist and pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery of nuclear fission. He is regarded as one of the most significant chemists of all time and especially as "the father of nuclear chemistry".Considered by many to be a model for scholarly excellence and personal integrity and he was the founding President of the Max Planck Society

Lise Meitner, Austrian-born physicist who, with her nephew Otto Frisch, elucidated the physical characteristics of nuclear fission. She and Otto Hahn were among the first to isolate the isotope protactinium-231, and with Hahn and Fritz Strassmann she investigated the products of neutron bombardment of uranium.

Meitner was the first woman physics professor in Germany. She was working on nuclear physics with her colleague Otto Hahn when she was forced to flee Nazi Germany in 1938. While in Stockholm she received news from Hahn that their experiment had produced an unexpected element. Meitner realised it meant fission had taken place while Hahn was still trying to figure out what their data meant. He went on to win a Nobel prize for the discovery, while Meitner was left out.

Important Manhattan Project research was conducted at Columbia University’s Schermerhorn Hall (pictured) and Pupin Hall. World-class physicists, including Nobel Prize winners Isidor I. Rabi and Enrico Fermi, joined Columbia’s research team to investigate the relatively new science of atomic particles. Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard first realized the possibility of a…

Lise Meitner

July 28 in Science History

The German chemist discovered that the atom could be split, paving the way for a nuclear bomb and changing the course of ...