German physical chemist who discovered nuclear fission (see nuclear
energy). In 1938 with Fritz Strassmann (1902-1980), he discovered that
uranium nuclei split when bombarded with neutrons. Hahn did not participate
in the resultant development of the atom bomb. Nobel Prize for Chemistry
1944.
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