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

Hahn claimed the discovery for himself and accepted a Nobel Prize for it without crediting Meitner. She later received informal recognition for her role. The young Goeppert thrived in the ...

The Nobel Committee awarded the prize because “The peacekeeping forces of the United Nations have, under extremely difficult conditions, contributed to reducing tensions where an armistice has ...

Frisch. In 1945 Hahn was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize for this discovery. According to contemporary witnesses, Otto Hahn came through the Nazi era with his personal integrity intact. He spoke up in ...

A few months after Meitner fled, Hahn and Fritz Strassmann discovered nuclear fission and informed Meitner about it. Together with her nephew, the physicist then developed the theoretical explanation.