In 1939 Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann announced that uranium nuclei "burst" when they are bombarded with neutrons. How they came to this conclusion is a classic example of the nature of science ...

Maheswaran Prabaharan presents Kalathuli on Otto Hahn who is the pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Otto Hahn Award is bestowed by the Max Planck Society every year to particularly worthy recipients of the Otto Hahn Medal. The award provides for a long-term research residency abroad, followed by ...