Nuclear fission – the physical process by which very large atoms like uranium split into pairs of smaller atoms – is what ...

Otto Hahn was born the son of master glazier and merchant Heinrich Hahn in Frankfurt am Main on 8 March 1879. The youngest of four brothers, whose father actually wanted him to be an architect, Hahn ...

In January of 1939, the German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann published the results of an historic experiment: after bombarding uranium with neutrons—neutrally charged particles—they ...

This is the purpose of the Otto Hahn Awards (formerly known as Otto Hahn Groups). From the group of students who are awarded the Otto Hahn Medal each year, three persons are selected. Following ...

Those born on this date are under the sign of Pisces. They include: -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in 1841 -- Scientist Otto Hahn in 1879 -- Actor Louise Beavers in 1902 -- Ac ...

More by Otto Hahn This article was originally published with the title “ The Discovery of Fission ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 198 No. 2 ( February 1958 ) , p. 76 doi: 10.1038 ...