Fritz Strassmann
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Friedrich Wilhelm Strassmann was a German chemist who, with Otto Hahn in December 1938, identified the element barium as a product of the bombardment of uranium with neutrons. Their observation was th
Fritz Strassmann
Exhibition to mark the 75th anniversary of the discovery of nuclear fission at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. The table and instruments are original, but the instruments would not have been together on the one table in the same room. Pressure from historians, scientists and feminists caused the museum to alter the display in 1988 to acknowledge the contributions of Lise Meitner, Otto Frisch and Strassmann (right), whose images are now prominently displayed.
Memorial plaque at the Hahn-Meitner Building at the Free University of Berlin commemorating the discovery of nuclear fission there by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann
Discovery of nuclear fission
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Nuclear fission was discovered in December 1938 by chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann and physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch. Fission is a nuclear reaction or radioactive decay proces
Fritz Strassmann
…Prussia, German Empire Died 22 April 1980 (aged 78) Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany Education Technical University of Hannover (PhD) Known for Discovery of nuclear fission Awards Enrico Fermi Award (1966) Scientific career Fields Chemistry Workplaces Kaiser Wilhelm Institute University of Mainz Doctoral advisor Hermann…
The periodic table c. 1930
Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner in 1912
Irène Curie and Frédéric Joliot in their Paris laboratory in 1935
Enrico Fermi and his research group (the Via Panisperna boys), c. 1934. Left to right: Oscar D'Agostino, Emilio Segrè, Edoardo Amaldi, Franco Rasetti and Fermi