Otto Hahn - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1944
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Otto Hahn

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1944
for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei
Citizenship
Weimar Republic Weimar Republic German Empire German Empire West Germany West Germany Nazi Germany Nazi Germany
Languages
German
date of birth
3/8/1879
place of birth
Frankfurt
date of death
7/28/1968
place of death
Göttingen
Lived
89 years
educated at
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    • academic major: chemistry
  • University of Marburg
    • academic major: chemistry
    • start time: 1897
    • end time: 1901
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
employer
  • Cornell University
    • end time: 1933
    • start time: 1933
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    • end time: 1933
    • start time: 1907
  • McGill University
    • end time: 1906
    • start time: 1905
  • University College London
    • end time: 1905
    • start time: 1904
  • Frederick William University Berlin
  • Freie Universität Berlin
member of
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 5/9/1957
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • Indian National Science Academy
  • Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Landsmannschaft Nibelungia Marburg
  • German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
  • Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
  • Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
  • Göttingen Eighteen
  • Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Romanian Academy
doctoral student
  • Abdul Hafeez
  • Nikolaus Riehl
  • Siegfried Flügge
  • Aristid von Grosse
  • Clara Lieber
  • Hans-Joachim Born
  • Walter Seelmann-Eggebert
  • Fritz Strassmann
  • Salomon Rosenblum
occupation
  • non-fiction writer
  • chemist
  • university teacher
  • nuclear physicist
  • autobiographer
  • physicist
field of work
  • radiochemistry
  • nuclear chemistry
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