In 1945, Hahn was nominated for the 1944 Nobel Prize in chemistry, one year late, for the discovery of nuclear fission. Meitner and Frisch were also nominated for the physics prize that year.

¶ The 1944 prize for chemistry went to pioneer atom-splitter Professor Otto Hahn, 66, lately of Berlin. Hahn came to the U.S. in 1933 to lecture for one year at Cornell.

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Hahn alone was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this work in 1944. Hahn had difficulty explaining his findings and proposed no credible mechanism as to how uranium splits to produce barium.

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