Otto Hahn

Otto Hahn, OBE, ForMemRS (8 Mairch 1879 – 28 Julie 1968) wis a German chemist an pioneer in the fields o radioactivity an radiochemistry who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery an the radiochemical pruif o nuclear fission.

He is regairdit as ane o the maist signeeficant chemists o aw time, an, especially as "the faither o nuclear chemistry".

Otto Hahn

Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn
Born8 Mairch 1879(1879-03-08)
Frankfurt am Main,
Hesse-Nassau, Proushie,
German Empire
Dee'd28 Julie 1968(1968-07-28) (aged 89)
Göttingen, West Germany
NaitionalityGerman
Alma materVarsity o Marburg
Kent forDiscovery o radioactive elements (1905–1921)
Radiothorium (1905)
Radioactinium (1906)
Mesothorium (1907)
Ionium (1907)
Radioactive recoil (1909)
Fajans–Paneth–Hahn Law
Protactinium (1917)
Nuclear isomerism (1921)
Applied Radiochemistry (1936)
Rubidium-strontium datin (1938)
Nuclear fission (1938)
Hauf-marrae(s)Edith Junghans (1913–1968)
Awairds
  • Emil Fischer Medal (1919)
  • Cannizzaro Prize (1939)
  • Copernicus Prize (1941)
  • Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1944)
  • Max Planck Medal (1949)
  • Paracelsus Medal (1952)
  • Henri Becquerel Medal (1952)
  • Pour le Mérite (1952)
  • Faraday Lectureship Prize (1956)
  • ForMemRS (1957)
  • Wilhelm Exner Medal (1958)
  • Hugo Grotius Medal (1958)
  • Légion d'Honneur (1959)
  • Enrico Fermi Awaird (1966)
Scientific career
FieldsRadiochemistry
Nuclear chemistry
Doctoral advisorTheodor Zincke
Other academic advisorsAdolf von Baeyer, Varsity o Munich;
Sir William Ramsay, Varsity College Lunnon;
Ernest Rutherford, McGill Varsity Montreal;
Emil Fischer, Varsity o Berlin
Doctoral studentsRoland Lindner
Walter Seelmann-Eggebert
Johannes Heidenhain
Jan de Vries
Truus de Vries-Kruyt
Aristid von Grosse
Boris Nikitin
Laszlo Imre
Clara Lieber
Fritz Strassmann
Salomon Aminyu Rosenblum
Karl Erik Zimen
Hans-Joachim Born
Boris Sagortschew
Hans Götte
Siegfried Flügge
Nikolaus Riehl
InfluencedFrédéric Joliot-Curie
Enrico Fermi
Glenn T. Seaborg
Edwin McMillan
Albert Ghiorso
Emilio Segrè
Philip Abelson
Joseph W. Kennedy
Nikolay Semyonov
Igor Kurchatov
Georgy Flyorov
Isaak Kikoin
Yulii Borisovich Khariton
SignaturOtto Hahn

References

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ChemistNobel Prize in ChemistryNuclear fissionOrder o the Breetish EmpireRadioactivity

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