Hahn, Otto

Name:
Hahn, Otto
Detailed information:
(1879–1968). A German physical chemist who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1944 for atom splitting and the principle of the chain reaction. Well-known for work on nuclear fission he discovered protactinium and transuranium elements with atomic numbers 94, 95, and 96. After receiving his doctorate at the University of Munich, he worked in Canada before returning to Europe.