Nuclear Fission
InventorOtto Hahn and Lise Meitner
Year1938
CategoryEnergy
OriginGermany/Sweden
About Nuclear Fission
Hahn did the chemistry, Meitner provided the theoretical explanation while exiled in Sweden. Meitner was excluded from the Nobel Prize awarded to Hahn. Einstein wrote to Roosevelt warning about a German bomb, starting the Manhattan Project.
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