Otto Hahn

Born	(1879-03-08)March 8, 1879 Frankfurt am Main, German Empire
Died	July 28, 1968(1968-07-28) (aged 89) Göttingen, Germany
Occupation	Chemist
Known for	Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944

Otto Hahn (8 March 1879 – 28 July 1968) was a German Nobel Prize winning chemist. He did pioneering research into the atom and he discovered nuclear fission (splitting the uranium atom) in 1938, together with Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassmann.

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Otto Hahn - the top 10 greatest scientists
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Otto Hahn (Great Germans) Archived 2014-01-14 at the Wayback Machine Biography
Otto Hahn - Famous Scientist Archived 2016-03-08 at the Wayback Machine The human touch of chemistry.
Otto Hahn - the inventor of atom splitting Archived 2012-07-27 at the Wayback Machine Visit Berlin, 2011.

v t e Winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1901–1925	van 't Hoff (1901) · E. Fischer (1902) · Arrhenius (1903) · Ramsay (1904) · von Baeyer (1905) · Moissan (1906) · Buchner (1907) · Rutherford (1908) · Ostwald (1909) · Wallach (1910) · Curie (1911) · Grignard / Sabatier (1912) · Werner (1913) · Richards (1914) · Willstätter (1915) · Haber (1918) · Nernst (1920) · Soddy (1921) · Aston (1922) · Pregl (1923) · Zsigmondy (1925)
1926–1950	Svedberg (1926) · Wieland (1927) · Windaus (1928) · Harden / von Euler-Chelpin (1929) · H. Fischer (1930) · Bosch / Bergius (1931) · Langmuir (1932) · Urey (1934) · F. Joliot-Curie / I. Joliot-Curie (1935) · Debye (1936) · Haworth / Karrer (1937) · Kuhn (1938) · Butenandt / Ružička (1939) · de Hevesy (1943) · Hahn (1944) · Virtanen (1945) · Sumner / Northrop / Stanley (1946) · Robinson (1947) · Tiselius (1948) · Giauque (1949) · Diels / Alder (1950)
1951–1975	McMillan / Seaborg (1951) · Martin / Synge (1952) · Staudinger (1953) · Pauling (1954) · du Vigneaud (1955) · Hinshelwood / Semyonov (1956) · Todd (1957) · Sanger (1958) · Heyrovský (1959) · Libby (1960) · Calvin (1961) · Perutz / Kendrew (1962) · Ziegler / Natta (1963) · Hodgkin (1964) · Woodward (1965) · Mulliken (1966) · Eigen / Norrish / Porter (1967) · Onsager (1968) · Barton / Hassel (1969) · Leloir (1970) · Herzberg (1971) · Anfinsen / Moore / Stein (1972) · E. O. Fischer / Wilkinson (1973) · Flory (1974) · Cornforth / Prelog (1975)
1976–2000	Lipscomb (1976) · Prigogine (1977) · Mitchell (1978) · Brown / Wittig (1979) · Berg / Gilbert / Sanger (1980) · Fukui / Hoffmann (1981) · Klug (1982) · Taube (1983) · Merrifield (1984) · Hauptman / Karle (1985) · Herschbach / Lee / Polanyi (1986) · Cram / Lehn / Pedersen (1987) · Deisenhofer / Huber / Michel (1988) · Altman / Cech (1989) · Corey (1990) · Ernst (1991) · Marcus (1992) · Mullis / Smith (1993) · Olah (1994) · Crutzen / Molina / Rowland (1995) · Curl / Kroto / Smalley (1996) · Boyer / Walker / Skou (1997) · Kohn / Pople (1998) · Zewail (1999) · Heeger / MacDiarmid / Shirakawa (2000)
2001–present	Knowles / Noyori / Sharpless (2001) · Fenn / Tanaka / Wüthrich (2002) · Agre / MacKinnon (2003) · Ciechanover / Hershko / Rose (2004) · Grubbs / Schrock / Chauvin (2005) · Kornberg (2006) · Ertl (2007) · Shimomura / Chalfie / Tsien (2008) · Ramakrishnan / Steitz / Yonath (2009) · Heck / Negishi / Suzuki (2010) · Shechtman (2011) · Lefkowitz / Kobilka (2012) · Karplus / Levitt / Warshel (2013) · Betzig / Hell / Moerner (2014) · Lindahl / Modrich / Sancar (2015) · Sauvage / Stoddart / Feringa (2016) · Dubochet / Frank / Henderson (2017) · Arnold / Smith / Winter (2018) · Goodenough / Whittingham / Yoshino (2019) · Charpentier / Doudna (2020) · MacMillan / List (2021) · Bertozzi / Meldal / Sharpless (2022) · Bawendi / Brus / Ekimov (2023)

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