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Born March 8, 1879 • Frankfurt am Main • Germany
Died July 28, 1968 (aged 89) • Göttingen • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1944)
Subjects Of Study nuclear fission • protactinium-231 • radioactivity • radiothorium

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Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn
Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn
Nobel Prize: chemical elements discovered by winners
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Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner
Austrian physicist
Fritz Strassmann
German chemist
Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg
American chemist
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
William Ramsay
Sir William Ramsay
British chemist
Tsien, Roger Y.
Roger Y. Tsien
American chemist
Daniel Shechtman
Daniel Shechtman
Israeli chemist
Martin Chalfie
American chemist
Edwin Mattison McMillan.
Edwin Mattison McMillan
American physicist
Shimomura, Osamu
Osamu Shimomura
Japanese-born chemist
Moissan, 1906
Henri Moissan
French chemist
Frederick Soddy
British chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist
Walther Nernst
Walther Nernst
German chemist
Ziegler
Karl Ziegler
German chemist
Emil Fischer.
Emil Fischer
German chemist

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