George Placzek
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George Placzek was a Czech physicist. His work involved a fundamental theory of Raman scattering, molecular spectroscopy in gases and liquids, neutron physics and mathematical physics.
Georg Placzek
Plaque at Placzek's place of birth in Brno
Otto Robert Frisch
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Otto Robert Frisch was an Austrian physicist who worked on nuclear physics. With Otto Stern and Immanuel Estermann, he first measured the magnetic moment of the proton. With his aunt, Lise Meitner, he
George Placzek
…involved a fundamental theory of Raman scattering, molecular spectroscopy in gases and liquids, neutron physics and mathematical physics. Together with Otto Frisch, he suggested a direct experimental proof of nuclear fission. Together with Niels Bohr and others, he was instrumental in clarifying the role of…
Otto Robert Frisch's wartime Los Alamos ID badge photo
Otto Frisch, Lise Meitner, and Glenn Seaborg
The Godiva device at Los Alamos
Left to right: William Penney, Otto Frisch, Rudolf Peierls and John Cockcroft in 1946