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Fritz Strassmann

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German chemist (1902-1980)

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Friedrich Wilhelm Strassmann was a German chemist who, with Otto Hahn in December 1938, identified the element barium as a product of the bombardment of uranium with neutrons.

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Exhibition to mark the 75th anniversary of the discovery of nuclear fission at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. The table and instruments are original, but the instruments would not have been together on the one table in the same room.[7] Pressure from historians, scientists and feminists caused the museum to alter the display in 1988 to acknowledge the contributions of Lise Meitner, Otto Frisch and Strassmann (right), whose images are now prominently displayed.[8]Exhibition to mark the 75th anniversary of the discovery of nuclear fission at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. The table and instruments are original, but the instruments would not have been together on the one table in the same room.[7] Pressure from historians, scientists and feminists caused the museum to alter the display in 1988 to acknowledge the contributions of Lise Meitner, Otto Frisch and Strassmann (right), whose images are now prominently displayed.[8]Memorial plaque at the Hahn-Meitner Building at the Free University of Berlin commemorating the discovery of nuclear fission there by Otto Hahn and Fritz StrassmannMemorial plaque at the Hahn-Meitner Building at the Free University of Berlin commemorating the discovery of nuclear fission there by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann

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1985Righteous Among the Nations
1966Enrico Fermi Award

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Friedrich Wilhelm Strassmann was a German chemist who, with Otto Hahn in December 1938, identified the element barium as a product of the bombardment of uranium with neutrons. Their observation was the key piece of evidence necessary to identify the previously unknown phenomenon of nuclear fission, as was subsequently recognized and published by Lise Meitner and Robert Frisch.

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Germany
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Scientist
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Lived 1902 to 1980 · aged 78
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