Otto Hahn, Nobel Prize-Winning German Chemist
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Otto Hahn German chemist who, with the radiochemist Fritz Strassmann, is credited with the discovery of nuclear fission. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944 and shared the Enrico Fermi Award in 1966 with Strassmann and Lise Meitner. Hahn was the son of a glazier. Although his
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The dark side of Nobel prizewinning research
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First Day Cover commemorating Otto Hahn's 1944 Nobel Prize in
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Lise Meitner, Austrian-Swedish Physicist
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Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Fritz Strassmann
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