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Otto Hahn
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Otto Hahn, OBE, ForMemRS[1] (8 Mairch 1879 – 28 Julie 1968) wis a German chemist an pioneer in the fields o radioactivity an radiochemistry who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery an the radiochemical pruif o nuclear fission.[2] He is regairdit as ane o the maist signeeficant chemists o aw time, an, especially as "the faither o nuclear chemistry".[3]
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Born | 8 Mairch 1879(1879-03-08) Frankfurt am Main, Hesse-Nassau, Proushie, German Empire |
Dee'd | 28 Julie 1968(1968-07-28) (aged 89) Göttingen, West Germany |
Naitionality | German |
Alma mater | Varsity o Marburg |
Kent for | Discovery o radioactive elements (1905–1921) Radiothorium (1905) Radioactinium (1906) Mesothorium (1907) Ionium (1907) Radioactive recoil (1909) Fajans–Paneth–Hahn Law Protactinium (1917) Nuclear isomerism (1921) Applied Radiochemistry (1936) Rubidium-strontium datin (1938) Nuclear fission (1938) |
Hauf-marrae(s) | Edith Junghans (1913–1968) |
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Fields | Radiochemistry Nuclear chemistry |
Doctoral advisor | Theodor Zincke |
Other academic advisors | Adolf von Baeyer, Varsity o Munich; Sir William Ramsay, Varsity College Lunnon; Ernest Rutherford, McGill Varsity Montreal; Emil Fischer, Varsity o Berlin |
Doctoral students | Roland Lindner Walter Seelmann-Eggebert Johannes Heidenhain Jan de Vries Truus de Vries-Kruyt Aristid von Grosse Boris Nikitin Laszlo Imre Clara Lieber Fritz Strassmann Salomon Aminyu Rosenblum Karl Erik Zimen Hans-Joachim Born Boris Sagortschew Hans Götte Siegfried Flügge Nikolaus Riehl |
Influenced | Frédéric Joliot-Curie Enrico Fermi Glenn T. Seaborg Edwin McMillan Albert Ghiorso Emilio Segrè Philip Abelson Joseph W. Kennedy Nikolay Semyonov Igor Kurchatov Georgy Flyorov Isaak Kikoin Yulii Borisovich Khariton |
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