Hahn, Otto (1878–1968)
German chemist awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on nuclear fission. With Lise Meitner he discovered the new element protactinium; later they bombarded uranium with neutrons, treating the uranium with ordinary barium. Meitner showed that the residue was radioactive barium formed the splitting (fission) of the uranium nucleus.
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