Otto Hahn
| Date of birth | March 8, 1879 |
| Place of birth | Frankfurt am Main |
| Date of death | July 28, 1968 |
| Place of death | Göttingen |
| Wikipedia link | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Hahn |
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Otto Hahn
- Director (1948-1960) -
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Hahn was the last president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (KWG) from 1946 and the first president of the Max Planck Society, which emerged from the KWG, from 1948 to 1960.
Otto Hahn
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Nobelpreis für Chemie
In 1945, Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery of nuclear fission of uranium and thorium.
Otto Hahn
- Director (1928-1946) -
Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie
Since 1912, Otto Hahn worked at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin, which he served as director from 1928 to 1946.
Otto Hahn
- Cooperation -
Lise Meitner
In 1907, Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn began a decades-long collaboration in Berlin. From 1912, Meitner and Hahn worked at the newly founded Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin-Dahlem. They researched radioactivity and discovered radioactive isotopes.
Otto Hahn
- provided experimental evidence for -
Radioaktiver Rückstoß
Radioactive recoil was first noticed by Harriet Brooks in 1904 when she placed non-radioactive plates near radioactive sources and observed that they developed activity. But it was not until the end of 1908 that radioactive recoil was actually experimentally proven and explained by Otto Hahn.
Otto Hahn
- discovered at the end of 1938 -
Kernspaltung
Together with Fritz Straßmann and Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn discovered nuclear fission at the end of 1938, ushering in the atomic age.
On December 17, 1938, nuclear fission of uranium was discovered and radiochemically proven by Otto Hahn and his assistant Fritz Straßmann.