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 RepublicWeimar RepublicGerman EmpireGerman EmpireWest GermanyWest GermanyNazi GermanyNazi 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
occupation
  • non-fiction writer
  • university teacher
  • nuclear physicist
  • physicist
  • autobiographer
  • chemist
field of work
  • nuclear chemistry
  • radiochemistry
educated at
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • University of Marburg
    • academic major: chemistry
    • start time: 1897
    • end time: 1901
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    • academic major: chemistry
employer
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    • start time: 1907
    • end time: 1933
  • Freie Universität Berlin
  • University College London
    • start time: 1904
    • end time: 1905
  • McGill University
    • start time: 1905
    • end time: 1906
  • Frederick William University Berlin
  • Cornell University
    • start time: 1933
    • end time: 1933
member of
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 5/9/1957
  • Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
  • Landsmannschaft Nibelungia Marburg
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • Indian National Science Academy
  • Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
  • Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
  • Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
  • Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Göttingen Eighteen
  • Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Romanian Academy
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
doctoral student
  • Aristid von Grosse
  • Clara Lieber
  • Abdul Hafeez
  • Salomon Rosenblum
  • Fritz Strassmann
  • Nikolaus Riehl
  • Hans-Joachim Born
  • Siegfried Flügge
  • Walter Seelmann-Eggebert
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