Otto Hahn

The splitting of the atom was discovered by accident by a man called Otto Hahn in the '30s, but he didn't know what he'd done.

Einstein: A Life 1996

The irony of the story of Lise Meitner is that her laboratory partner of thirty years, Otto Hahn, who remained in Berlin throughout the Third Reich, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944.

Lise Meitner. 2009

In 1938, Fritz Strassmann (1902 – 1980), along with Lise Meitner (1878 – 1968) and Otto Hahn (1879 – 1968), discovered the process of fission in uranium and thorium.

Strassmann, Fritz 2009

Although Marguerite Wolff was unable to continue her scholarly work after leaving Germany, she did continue to deal with legal issues, translating works in this area, including a lecture given in London in 1956 by Otto Hahn (1878 – 1968), the president of the Max Planck Society, which replaced the Kaiser Wilhelm Society.

Marguerite Wolff. 2009

Physics Today (September 1997): 26 – 32; Spence, R. “Otto Hahn 1879 – 1968.”

Lise Meitner. 2009

In Otto Hahn and the Rise of Nuclear Physics, edited by William Shea, 91 – 133.

Lise Meitner. 2009

J. Physique Radium, 9 (1938): 355; Ernst, Sabine, ed. Lise Meitner und Otto Hahn: Briefe aus den Jahren 1912 bis 1924 – Edition und Kommentierung.

Lise Meitner. 2009

In 1907, she was introduced to radio-chemist Otto Hahn, who became a thirty-year research partner in experimental work discovering new radioactive elements and unraveling their complex physical properties.

Lise Meitner. 2009

After the traumas in Germany related to World War I (during which Meitner served as an X-ray technician on the Austrian front from 1915 – 1917), Otto Hahn was named the Administrative Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry, while Meitner supervised the first-floor Physics Section, which she led for over twenty years until forced to flee Berlin under the Third Reich.

Lise Meitner. 2009

Her close partner Otto Hahn was not even notified of secret plans by Nobel-laureate Bohr until days before her departure in July 1938.

Lise Meitner. 2009