Otto Robert Frisch OBE FRS (1 October 1904 – 22 September 1979) was an Austrian-born British physicist who worked on nuclear physics. With Otto Stern...
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nuclear weapon. It was written by expatriate German-Jewish physicists Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls in March 1940 while they were both working for Mark...
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Fritz Strassmann (category Otto Hahn)
fission, as was subsequently recognized and published by Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch. In their second publication on nuclear fission in February 1939, Strassmann...
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Lise Meitner (category Otto Hahn)
by Hahn, and in late December, with her nephew, fellow physicist Otto Robert Frisch, she worked out the physics of this process by correctly interpreting...
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Tube Alloys (section Frisch–Peierls memorandum)
early in the war. At the University of Birmingham, Rudolf Peierls and Otto Robert Frisch co-wrote a memorandum explaining that a small mass of pure uranium-235...
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discovery of nuclear fission in uranium, scientists Rudolf Peierls and Otto Frisch at the University of Birmingham calculated, in March 1940, that the critical...
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MAUD Committee (section Frisch–Peierls memorandum)
was founded in response to the Frisch–Peierls memorandum, which was written in March 1940 by Rudolf Peierls and Otto Frisch, two physicists who were refugees...
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discovered in December 1938 by chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann and physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch. Fission is a nuclear reaction or...
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fission by chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann in 1938, and its explanation (and naming) by physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch soon after, opened...
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Strassmann, Fritz (29 July 1968) "Zum Tode von Otto Hahn". Die Welt. Frisch, Otto R. (1968). "Otto Hahn". Physics Bulletin. 19 (10): 354. doi:10...
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