Otto Robert Frisch
Austrian-born British nuclear physicist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Otto Robert Frisch OBE FRS[1] (1 October 1904 – 22 September 1979) was an Austrian-born British physicist who worked on nuclear physics. With Otto Stern and Immanuel Estermann he first measured the magnetic moment of the proton. With Lise Meitner he advanced the first theoretical explanation of nuclear fission (coining the term) and first experimentally detected the fission by-products. Later, with his collaborator Rudolf Peierls[1] he designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1940.[2]
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Otto Robert Frisch | |
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Born | (1904-10-01)1 October 1904 |
Died | 22 September 1979(1979-09-22) (aged 74) Cambridge, United Kingdom |
Nationality | Austrian |
Citizenship | Austria United Kingdom |
Alma mater | University of Vienna |
Known for | Atomic bomb |
Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
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